Though the term NATIVE SPEAKER/SIGNER is frequently used in language research, it is
inconsistently conceptualized. Factors, such as age, order, and context of acquisition, in …

This paper addresses several problematic scientific practices in psycholinguistic research.
We discuss challenges that arise when working with minority languages, such as the notion …

While the ideological underpinnings and the effects of the “native speaker” concept have
been much debated and challenged (Braine 1999a; Canagarajah 1999b; Cook 1999; Firth …

The notion of the native speaker has occupied a prominent place in foreign/second
language research and theoretical linguistics: it has influenced both the way we theorize …

The “NNEST Movement” has been instrumental in documenting the privilege of native
speakers, the marginalization of their nonnative counterparts, and the factors that may …

Linguists, applied linguists and language teachers all appeal to the native speaker as an
important reference point. But what exactly (who exactly?) is the native speaker? This book …

-A-explicitly or implicitly, on the notion of the native speaker. In language pedagogy, the
premium put on spoken communicative compe tence since the 1970s has endowed native …

This Forum challenges the generally accepted position in the linguistic sciences—conscious
or not—that monolingualism and nativeness are essentially synonymous in an exclusive …

We argue for a perspective on bilingual heritage speakers as native speakers of both their
languages and present results from a large-scale, cross-linguistic study that took such a …

Some sociolinguistic variables are prone to hypercorrection, stigmatization and style shifting,
while other variables are not. The status of the former type—sometimes called stereotypes …