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'Spare a thought for the language learner!' A commentary on Hultgren's red herring

Current Swedish archaeology, 2021-08, Vol.20 (1), p.278 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

Copyright University of Oslo 2021 ;ISSN: 1502-7694 ;ISSN: 1102-7355 ;EISSN: 1654-6970 ;EISSN: 2002-3901 ;DOI: 10.35360/njes.670

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  • Title:
    'Spare a thought for the language learner!' A commentary on Hultgren's red herring
  • Author: Lanvers, Ursula
  • Subjects: Accentuation ; English as a second language learning ; English as an international language ; Idioms ; Native speakers ; Phraseologisms
  • Is Part Of: Current Swedish archaeology, 2021-08, Vol.20 (1), p.278
  • Description: Native speakers, often not very highly sensitized to the difficulties of language learning and of conversing in a language with only a limited repertoire at their disposal, are notoriously disadvantaged in international communication: they use colloquialisms, idioms, local sayings, regional accents, and make references to UK- or US-specific cultural phenomena, all of which leaves the international interlocutor baffled (Hazel 2016). The focus on a purported native speaker advantage, then, might betray a somewhat unhealthy preoccupation with our own (academic) community, and the thorny issue of the advantage (or not) that native speakers might have publishing in English. What, then, of the English native speaker learning LOTE? Here, they are disadvantaged on many levels (Lanvers 2016). As a result of global English, they often feel disincentivized to learn LOTEs, as their personal benefit from learning a LOTE remains unclear to them.
  • Publisher: Oslo: University of Oslo
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISSN: 1502-7694
    ISSN: 1102-7355
    EISSN: 1654-6970
    EISSN: 2002-3901
    DOI: 10.35360/njes.670
  • Source: Alma/SFX Local Collection
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