We have emphasized multiple times that when it comes to multilinguals it is about time to stop comparing them to monolinguals. Same goes with the term of the "native speaker".
In this interview with Prof. Jean-Marc Dewaele we focus on why the mythical "native speaker" has "mud on its face" (to quote an article he co-authered with Thomas H Bak and Lourdes Ortega).
What do we associate with the term of "native speaker", and what other term would be more appropriate?
Are teachers who are native-speakers better teachers than those who are non-native speakers?
He shares with us why the term itself of "native speaker" is discriminatory, and why we should abandon its ideology and deficit view that seems to perpetuate when it comes to foreign language users.
02:05 What made him focus on the particular topic of the "native speaker"
05:22 Why has the mythical native speaker "mud on its face"? (And where does this idea come from)
09:57 About accents and how focusing on accents in this context can be detrimental
13:20 Is the native speaker always preferable to the non-native speaker?
17:00 Why the categorization of "native" vs "non-native" is a too "black and white" thing but we should rather look at it as a continuum
20:00 Why should the terms or labels of "Native Speakers" or "Non-Native Speakers" be avoided and replaced with "LX user"?
26:14 The hierarchy in defining languages: L1, L2 etc. or L1a, L1b etc. (chronologically speaking)
27:17 "Proficiency and Chronology need to be separated because the one doesn't imply the other"
30:34 There is a difference between how people acquire first languages, and how they acquire languages later in life...
31:12 (short comment about adopted children)
32:37 About the concept of proficiency (which is not easy to measure) ex. CEFR
36:35 When children refuse to reply to their parents in their language; and the interesting fact that this tends to happen around age 12.
40:25 Debunking the myth that the native speaker is somehow superior...
47:31 About the importance of the teacher's attitude
49:38 What are more important variables when choosing a teacher (or a new colleague)?
55:00 Why we should not use the term of native speaker with a deficit perspective
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Please watch also our previous interview with Prof. Jean-Marc Dewaele:
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Jean-Marc Dewaele is Professor of Applied Linguistics and Multilingualism at Birkbeck, University of London. He has published widely on individual differences in psycholinguistic, sociolinguistic, pragmatic, psychological and emotional variables in Second Language Acquisition and Multilingualism. He is former president of the International Association of Multilingualism, the European Second Language Association and is current president of the International Association for the Psychology of Language Learning. He is General Editor of the Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development. He won the Equality and Diversity Research Award from the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (2013), the Robert Gardner Award for Excellence in Second Language and Bilingualism Research from the International Association of Language and Social Psychology (2016) and the Distinguished Scholar Award from the European Second Language Association (2022).
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27 авг 2024
