The Changing Face of the “Native Speaker” : : Perspectives from Multilingualism and Globalization / / ed. by Nikolay Slavkov, Sílvia Melo-Pfeifer, Nadja Kerschhofer-Puhalo.

The notion of the native speaker and its undertones of ultimate language competence, language ownership and social status has been problematized by various researchers, arguing that the ensuing monolingual norms and assumptions are flawed or inequitable in a global super-diverse world. However, such...

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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Trends in Applied Linguistics [TAL] , 31
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Physical Description:1 online resource (VI, 355 p.)
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Other title:Frontmatter --
Contents --
Introduction: The changing face of the “native speaker” --
Part one: Conceptual discussions --
Chapter 1 Why the mythical “native speaker” has mud on its face --
Chapter 2 The multilingual and multicompetent native speaker --
Chapter 3 New speakers: New linguistic subjects --
Part two: Practices and representations --
Chapter 4 Is there a native speaker in the class? A didactic view of a problematic notion --
Chapter 5 On the paradox of being native speakers of two “competing” languages: Turkish as the mother or the father tongue of Greek nationals --
Chapter 6 What kind of speakers are these? Placing heritage speakers of Russian on a continuum --
Chapter 7 The out-of-sight of “native speaker”: A critical journey through models of social representations of plurilingual identities --
Chapter 8 Practice-proof concepts? Rethinking linguistic borders and families in multilingual communication: Exploiting the relationship between intercomprehension and translanguaging --
Part three: Policies and controversies --
Chapter 9 Provenance and possession: Rethinking the mother tongue --
Chapter 10 The pluricentricity and ownership of English --
Chapter 11 “I want to be bilingual!” Contested imaginings of bilingualism in New Brunswick, Canada --
Chapter 12 Questioning the questions: Institutional and individual perspectives on children’s language repertoires --
Afterword --
Index
Summary:The notion of the native speaker and its undertones of ultimate language competence, language ownership and social status has been problematized by various researchers, arguing that the ensuing monolingual norms and assumptions are flawed or inequitable in a global super-diverse world. However, such norms are still ubiquitous in educational, institutional and social settings, in political structures and in research paradigms. This collection offers voices from various contexts and corners of the world and further challenges the native speaker construct adopting poststructuralist and postcolonial perspectives. It includes conceptual, methodological, educational and practice-oriented contributions. Topics span language minorities, intercomprehension, plurilingualism and pluriculturalism, translanguaging, teacher education, new speakers, language background profiling, heritage languages, and learner identity, among others. Collectively, the authors paint the portrait of the "changing face of the native speaker" while also strengthening a new global agenda in multilingualism and social justice. These diverse and interconnected contributions are meant to inspire researchers, university students, educators, policy makers and beyond.
Format:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
ISBN:9781501512353
9783110766820
9783110754001
9783110753776
9783110754117
9783110753882
ISSN:1868-6362 ;
DOI:10.1515/9781501512353
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Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Nikolay Slavkov, Sílvia Melo-Pfeifer, Nadja Kerschhofer-Puhalo.