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  2. Native-speakerism - Wikipedia

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    Native-speakerism is the belief that native-speaker teachers embody Western cultural ideals in both English language and teaching methodology. The term was coined by Adrian Holliday. [ 1 ] However, the ideology of native-speakerism has been present much longer than that. [ 2 ]

  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. 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.

  5. 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 ...

  6. 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]

  7. English grammar - Wikipedia

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    The Oxford Dictionary of English Grammar. Oxford University Press. p. 464. ISBN 0-19-280087-6. Cobbett, William (1883). 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 ...

  8. English language - Wikipedia

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    As of 2016, 400 million people spoke English as their first language, and 1.1 billion spoke it as a secondary language. [70] English is the largest language by number of speakers . English is spoken by communities on every continent and on islands in all the major oceans.

  9. Accent (sociolinguistics) - Wikipedia

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    In sociolinguistics, an accent is a way of pronouncing a language that is distinctive to a country, area, social class, or individual. [1] An accent may be identified with the locality in which its speakers reside (a regional or geographical accent), the socioeconomic status of its speakers, their ethnicity (an ethnolect), their caste or social class (a social accent), or influence from their ...