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Native Speaker

Author : Chang-rae Lee
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1573225312
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (732 download)

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Download or read book Native Speaker written by Chang-rae Lee and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1996-03-01 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ONE OF THE ATLANTIC’S GREAT AMERICAN NOVELS OF THE PAST 100 YEARS The debut novel from critically acclaimed and New York Times–bestselling author of On Such a Full Sea and My Year Abroad. In Native Speaker, author Chang-rae Lee introduces readers to Henry Park. Park has spent his entire life trying to become a true American—a native speaker. But even as the essence of his adopted country continues to elude him, his Korean heritage seems to drift further and further away. Park's harsh Korean upbringing has taught him to hide his emotions, to remember everything he learns, and most of all to feel an overwhelming sense of alienation. In other words, it has shaped him as a natural spy. But the very attributes that help him to excel in his profession put a strain on his marriage to his American wife and stand in the way of his coming to terms with his young son's death. When he is assigned to spy on a rising Korean-American politician, his very identity is tested, and he must figure out who he is amid not only the conflicts within himself but also within the ethnic and political tensions of the New York City streets. Native Speaker is a story of cultural alienation. It is about fathers and sons, about the desire to connect with the world rather than stand apart from it, about loyalty and betrayal, about the alien in all of us and who we finally are.

Native Speaker

Author : Chang-rae Lee
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101660031
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Native Speaker written by Chang-rae Lee and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1996-03-01 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The debut novel from critically-acclaimed and New York Times–bestselling author of On Such a Full Sea and My Year Abroad. In Native Speaker, author Chang-rae Lee introduces readers to Henry Park. Park has spent his entire life trying to become a true American—a native speaker. But even as the essence of his adopted country continues to elude him, his Korean heritage seems to drift further and further away. Park's harsh Korean upbringing has taught him to hide his emotions, to remember everything he learns, and most of all to feel an overwhelming sense of alienation. In other words, it has shaped him as a natural spy. But the very attributes that help him to excel in his profession put a strain on his marriage to his American wife and stand in the way of his coming to terms with his young son's death. When he is assigned to spy on a rising Korean-American politician, his very identity is tested, and he must figure out who he is amid not only the conflicts within himself but also within the ethnic and political tensions of the New York City streets. Native Speaker is a story of cultural alienation. It is about fathers and sons, about the desire to connect with the world rather than stand apart from it, about loyalty and betrayal, about the alien in all of us and who we finally are.

Native Speaker

Author : Chang-rae Lee
Publisher : Penguin Books
ISBN 13 : 0143124307
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book Native Speaker written by Chang-rae Lee and published by Penguin Books. This book was released on 1995 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Against the turbulent background of New York City politics and growing ethnic tensions, Park must finally come to emotional terms with his American wife and the loss of their son, and with his belated recognition of who he is.

Native Speakers and Native Users

Author : Alan Davies
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521119278
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (211 download)

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Download or read book Native Speakers and Native Users written by Alan Davies and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-08 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Native speakers' and 'native users' are playing the same game, sharing, as they do, the model of the Standard Language.

The Changing Face of the “Native Speaker”

Author : Nikolay Slavkov
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1501512358
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book The Changing Face of the “Native Speaker” written by Nikolay Slavkov and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-11-22 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Native Speaker Concept

Author : Neriko Musha Doerr
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110220946
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book The Native Speaker Concept written by Neriko Musha Doerr and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2009 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a fresh look at the 'native speaker' by situating him/her in wider sociopolitical contexts. Using anthropological frameworks and ethnographic data from around the world, this book addresses the questions of who qualifies as a 'native speaker' and his/her social relations in the regime of standardization in multilingual situations.

Hacking Chinese

Author : Olle Linge
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781530334889
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book Hacking Chinese written by Olle Linge and published by . This book was released on 2016-03-26 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learning Chinese can be frustrating and difficult, partly because it's very different from European languages. Following a teacher, textbook or language course is not enough. They show you the characters, words and grammar you need to become proficient in Chinese, but they don't teach you how to learn them! Regardless of what program you're in (if any), you need to take responsibility for your own learning. If you don't, you will miss many important things that aren't included in the course you're taking. If you study on your own, you need to be even more aware of what you need to do, what you're doing at the moment and the difference between them. Here are some of the questions I have asked and have since been asked many times by students: How do I learn characters efficiently? How do I get the most out of my course or teacher? Which are the best learning tools and resources? How can I become fluent in Mandarin? How can I improve my pronunciation? How do I learn successfully on my own? How can I motivate myself to study more? How can I fit learning Chinese into a busy schedule? The answers I've found to these questions and many others form the core of this book. It took eight years of learning, researching, teaching and writing to figure these things out. Not everybody has the time to do that! I can't go back in time and help myself learn in a better way, but I can help you! This book is meant for normal students and independent language learners alike. While it covers all major areas of learning, you won't learn Chinese just by reading this book. It's like when someone on TV teaches you how to cook: you won't get to eat the delicious dish just by watching the program; you have to do the cooking yourself. That's true for this book as well. When you apply what you learn, it will boost your learning, making every hour you spend count for more, but you still have to do the learning yourself. This is what a few readers have said about the book: "The book had me nodding at a heap of things I'd learnt the hard way, wishing I knew them when I started, as well as highlighting areas that I'm currently missing in my study." - Geoff van der Meer, VP engineering "This publication is like a bible for anyone serious about Chinese proficiency. It's easy for anyone to read and written with scientific precision." - Zachary Danz, foreign teacher, children's theatre artist About me I started learning Chinese when I was 23 (that's more than eight years ago now) and have since studied in many different situations, including serious immersion programs abroad, high-intensity programs in Sweden, online courses, as well as on the side while working or studying other things. I have also successfully used my Chinese in a graduate program for teaching Chinese as a second language, taught entirely in Chinese mostly for native speakers (the Graduate Institute for Teaching Chinese as a Second Language at National Taiwan Normal University). All these parts have contributed to my website, Hacking Chinese, where I write regularly about how to learn Mandarin.

Not Like a Native Speaker

Author : Rey Chow
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231522711
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Not Like a Native Speaker written by Rey Chow and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2014-09-23 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the era of European colonialism has long passed, misgivings about the inequality of the encounters between European and non-European languages persist in many parts of the postcolonial world. This unfinished state of affairs, this lingering historical experience of being caught among unequal languages, is the subject of Rey Chow's book. A diverse group of personae, never before assembled in a similar manner, make their appearances in the various chapters: the young mulatto happening upon a photograph about skin color in a popular magazine; the man from Martinique hearing himself named "Negro" in public in France; call center agents in India trained to Americanize their accents while speaking with customers; the Algerian Jewish philosopher reflecting on his relation to the French language; African intellectuals debating the pros and cons of using English for purposes of creative writing; the translator acting by turns as a traitor and as a mourner in the course of cross-cultural exchange; Cantonese-speaking writers of Chinese contemplating the politics of food consumption; radio drama workers straddling the forms of traditional storytelling and mediatized sound broadcast. In these riveting scenes of speaking and writing imbricated with race, pigmentation, and class demarcations, Chow suggests, postcolonial languaging becomes, de facto, an order of biopolitics. The native speaker, the fulcrum figure often accorded a transcendent status, is realigned here as the repository of illusory linguistic origins and unities. By inserting British and post-British Hong Kong (the city where she grew up) into the languaging controversies that tend to be pursued in Francophone (and occasionally Anglophone) deliberations, and by sketching the fraught situations faced by those coping with the specifics of using Chinese while negotiating with English, Chow not only redefines the geopolitical boundaries of postcolonial inquiry but also demonstrates how such inquiry must articulate historical experience to the habits, practices, affects, and imaginaries based in sounds and scripts.

Language Proficiency in Native and Non-native Speakers

Author : Jan H. Hulstijn
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027269025
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book Language Proficiency in Native and Non-native Speakers written by Jan H. Hulstijn and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2015-02-15 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, written for both seasoned and novice researchers, presents a theory of what is called Basic and Higher Language Cognition (BLC and HLC), a theory aimed at making some fundamental issues concerning first and second language learning and bilingualism (more) empirical. The first part of the book provides background for and explication of the theory as well as an agenda for future research, while the second part reports on selected studies of language proficiency in native speakers, as well as non-native speakers, and studies of the relationship between literacy in a first and second language. Conceptual and methodological problems in measuring language proficiency in research on second language acquisition and bilingualism are also discussed. Further, the notion of levels of language proficiency, as rendered by the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR), is critically examined, suggesting ways of empirically investigating a number of questions that the CEFR raises but is not capable of answering.

The Acquisition of Heritage Languages

Author : Silvina Montrul
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107007240
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book The Acquisition of Heritage Languages written by Silvina Montrul and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An authoritative overview of research into heritage language acquisition, covering key terminological and empirical issues, theoretical approaches, and research methodologies.

The Native Speaker is Dead!

Author : Thomas M. Paikeday
Publisher : Mississauga, Ont. : Paikeday Pub.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Native Speaker is Dead! written by Thomas M. Paikeday and published by Mississauga, Ont. : Paikeday Pub.. This book was released on 1985 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Native Speakers

Author : María Eugenia Cotera
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292782489
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book Native Speakers written by María Eugenia Cotera and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early twentieth century, three women of color helped shape a new world of ethnographic discovery. Ella Cara Deloria, a Sioux woman from South Dakota, Zora Neale Hurston, an African American woman from Florida, and Jovita González, a Mexican American woman from the Texas borderlands, achieved renown in the fields of folklore studies, anthropology, and ethnolinguistics during the 1920s and 1930s. While all three collaborated with leading male intellectuals in these disciplines to produce innovative ethnographic accounts of their own communities, they also turned away from ethnographic meaning making at key points in their careers and explored the realm of storytelling through vivid mixed-genre novels centered on the lives of women. In this book, Cotera offers an intellectual history situated in the "borderlands" between conventional accounts of anthropology, women's history, and African American, Mexican American and Native American intellectual genealogies. At its core is also a meditation on what it means to draw three women—from disparate though nevertheless interconnected histories of marginalization—into conversation with one another. Can such a conversation reveal a shared history that has been erased due to institutional racism, sexism, and simple neglect? Is there a mode of comparative reading that can explore their points of connection even as it remains attentive to their differences? These are the questions at the core of this book, which offers not only a corrective history centered on the lives of women of color intellectuals, but also a methodology for comparative analysis shaped by their visions of the world.

Native Speakers, Interrupted

Author : Silvina Montrul
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107133378
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Native Speakers, Interrupted written by Silvina Montrul and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-12-31 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the language acquisition and transmission of Hindi, Spanish and Romanian as heritage languages in the United States.

Native Speakers and Native Users

Author : Alan Davies
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107292123
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Native Speakers and Native Users written by Alan Davies and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Native speakers' and 'native users' are terms traditionally used to differentiate between speakers who have acquired a language from birth and speakers who have learnt a second language. This book highlights the problems associated with making such a clear cut distinction. By analysing a range of literature, language uses and proficiency tests, Davies argues that there is no significant difference between native speakers and native users, and emphasises the importance of the Standard Language. Whilst individual native speakers may vary considerably, the academic construct of the native speaker is isomorphic with the Standard Language which is available to both native speakers and native users through education. In this book, Davies explores the 'native user' as a second language speaker who uses language with 'native speaker' competence. This book will be of significant interest to students and researchers working in the fields of second language acquisition and applied linguistics.

A Gesture Life

Author : Chang-rae Lee
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1573228281
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (732 download)

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Download or read book A Gesture Life written by Chang-rae Lee and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2000-10-01 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second novel from the critically acclaimed New York Times–bestselling author Chang-rae Lee. His remarkable debut novel was called "rapturous" (The New York Times Book Review), "revelatory" (Vogue), and "wholly innovative" (Kirkus Reviews). It was the recipient of six major awards, including the prestigious Hemingway Foundation/PEN award. Now Chang-rae Lee has written a powerful and beautifully crafted second novel that leaves no doubt about the extraordinary depth and range of his talent. A Gesture Life is the story of a proper man, an upstanding citizen who has come to epitomize the decorous values of his New York suburban town. Courteous, honest, hardworking, and impenetrable, Franklin Hata, a Japanese man of Korean birth, is careful never to overstep his boundaries and to make his neighbors comfortable in his presence. Yet as his story unfolds, precipitated by the small events surrounding him, we see his life begin to unravel. Gradually we learn the mystery that has shaped the core of his being: his terrible, forbidden love for a young Korean Comfort Woman when he served as a medic in the Japanese army during World War II. In A Gesture Life, Chang-rae Lee leads us with dazzling control through a taut, suspenseful story about love, family, and community—and the secrets we harbor. As in Native Speaker, he writes of the ways outsiders conform in order to survive and the price they pay for doing so. It is a haunting, breathtaking display of talent by an acclaimed young author.

Teaching and Researching English Accents in Native and Non-native Speakers

Author : Ewa Waniek-Klimczak
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642240194
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book Teaching and Researching English Accents in Native and Non-native Speakers written by Ewa Waniek-Klimczak and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-14 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Second language phonology is approached in this book from the perspective of data-based studies into the English sound system as used by native and non-native speakers of the language. The book offers a unique combination of psycholinguistic, sociolinguistic and pedagogical approaches, with individual contributions investigating the effect of selected conditioning factors on the pronunciation of English. With all the richness of approaches, it is a strong phonetic background that unifies individual contributions to the volume. Thus, the book contains a large body of original, primary research which will be of interest to experienced scientist, practitioners and lecturers as well as graduate students planning to embark on empirical methods of investigating the nature of the sound system

Non-Native Speakers Only: The Best Way to Start Writing as a Non-Native Speaker & Make a Living from Web Content Writing as Modern Storytellers

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Author : M. Gaspary
Publisher : MG Consulting
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (157 download)

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Download or read book Non-Native Speakers Only: The Best Way to Start Writing as a Non-Native Speaker & Make a Living from Web Content Writing as Modern Storytellers written by M. Gaspary and published by MG Consulting. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn how to build a successful and meaningful author brand as a modern storyteller with 100% control of the result you want for your writing business. Not only does the book show the rulebook of effective content writing, but it also serves as transformative and inspirational material that will push you to take action and commit to changing the direction of your writing life. BACKGROUND STORY: As a non-native English speaker in the freelance writing industry, many people needed to be more convinced about our language fluency. However, you will only achieve something if you take action for your goals. The same problem will get you stuck in an unending cycle of financial frustration and hopelessness, which will eventually become the reason for depression. You will continue to need help finding good writing opportunities, though the internet can provide billions of possibilities in seconds. INTRIGUED? BUY THE BOOK NOW Get your hands on "Non-Native Speakers Only" by M. Gaspary, and enjoy reading with life-changing benefits, such as: Seeing a different perspective of yourself as an NNS writer Developing a plan that guarantees a thriving writing career Increasing writing confidence as a non-native speaker Could you tell me why I should buy this book? My life changed when I applied the three (3) core values to my writing routine and earned my first 4-figures from freelance content writing. Since then, my emails have been flooded with job offers from different people and companies without searching for them. Overall, my writing life thrived effortlessly. Is this what you want? Is this how you want your writing career to look? If you say yes, don't miss this rare, one-of-a-kind opportunity to learn and discover the secret code of content writing. You will never regret this decision. It may only cost you a few dollars, but the value you're getting is ten-folds. If not, more. So, better do something that will make you believe you can achieve impossible things as an NNS writer. NOW is the perfect time for you to prove that you can. It's now or never.