The native/non-native debate: A practitioner responds

IF 4 2区文学 Q1 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH

Language Teaching Pub Date : 2024-11-15 DOI:10.1017/s0261444824000272

Carol Griffiths

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Abstract

It is, perhaps, with some surprise that I find the native/non-native divide again attracting attention. The first I remember of this being an issue was when we were informed that the native speaker was dead (Paikeday, 1985). Needless to say, to those of us who did not feel at all deceased, this came as a surprise, but the announcement certainly attracted attention. The next contribution to the debate that I remember was Peter Medgyes's (1992) question regarding whether native or non-native was worth more. And so the dispute has continued spasmodically until the present, when we find two pieces on the subject within two recent issues of Language Teaching (Llurda & Calvet-Terré, 2024; Selvi et al., 2024).

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本土/非本土辩论：一位从业者的回应

也许，我有些惊讶地发现，母语与非母语之间的分歧再次引起了人们的关注。在我的记忆中，第一次出现这个问题是在我们被告知母语为英语的人已经去世的时候（Paikeday，1985 年）。不用说，对于我们这些根本不觉得自己已经去世的人来说，这无疑是个惊喜，但这一消息无疑引起了人们的关注。我记得对这场争论的下一个贡献是 Peter Medgyes（1992 年）提出的关于母语或非母语是否更有价值的问题。这场争论一直持续到现在，我们在最近两期《语言教学》（Llurda & Calvet-Terré, 2024; Selvi et al.）

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期刊介绍： Language Teaching is the essential research resource for language professionals providing a rich and expert overview of research in the field of second-language teaching and learning. It offers critical survey articles of recent research on specific topics, second and foreign languages and countries, and invites original research articles reporting on replication studies and meta-analyses. The journal also includes regional surveys of outstanding doctoral dissertations, topic-based research timelines, theme-based research agendas, recent plenary conference speeches, and research-in-progress reports. A thorough peer-reviewing procedure applies to both the commissioned and the unsolicited articles.