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  2. Native-speakerism - Wikipedia

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    This period saw the implementation of standards in grammar and vocabulary, which is the foundation of the favouritism given towards native-speakers in the second language learning and teaching environment. [6] During this period post World War II, the Chomskian notion of the monolingual, idealised, native speaker was developed. [6]

  3. Dictogloss - Wikipedia

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    Dictogloss is a language teaching technique that is used to teach grammatical structures, in which students form small groups and summarize a target-language text. [1] First, the teacher prepares a text that contains examples of the grammatical form to be studied. [2]

  4. English as a second or foreign language - Wikipedia

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    English language teaching (ELT) is a widely used teacher-centered term, as in the English language teaching divisions of large publishing houses, ELT training, etc. Teaching English as a second language (TESL), teaching English to speakers of other languages (TESOL), and teaching English as a foreign language (TEFL) are also used. [citation needed]

  5. English grammar - Wikipedia

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    A Grammar of the English Language, In a Series of Letters: Intended for the Use of Schools and of Young Persons in General, but more especially for the use of Soldiers, Sailors, Apprentices, and Plough-Boys. New York and Chicago: A. S. Barnes and Company. Cobbett, William (2003) [1818]. A Grammar of the English Language (Oxford Language ...

  6. Lexical approach - Wikipedia

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    Vocabulary is prized over grammar per se in this approach. The teaching of chunks and set phrases has become common in English as a foreign or second language, though this is not necessarily primarily due to the Lexical Approach. This is because anywhere from 55 to 80% [1] of native speakers' speech are derived from prefabricated phrases ...

  7. Grammaticality - Wikipedia

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    A native speaker's linguistic competence, which is the knowledge that they have of their language, allows them to easily judge whether a sentence is grammatical or ungrammatical based on intuitive introspection. For this reason, such judgements are sometimes called introspective grammaticality judgements.

  8. English language - Wikipedia

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    Varieties of English learned by non-native speakers born to English-speaking parents may be influenced, especially in their grammar, by the other languages spoken by those learners. [82] Most of those varieties of English include words little used by native speakers of English in the inner-circle countries, [ 82 ] and they may show grammatical ...

  9. Teaching English as a second or foreign language - Wikipedia

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    Both native and non-native speakers train to be English-language teachers. To teach English as a second language to English-language learners (ELLs), passing a written and oral test in English to demonstrate proficiency is recommended but not always required. [7] In California, there is an achievement gap between native and non-native English ...