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Conversations with Native Speakers
Allison Silver Adelman
其他書名
Acquiring Japanese as a Second Language
出版University of California, Santa Barbara, 2014
ISBN132134905X9781321349054
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=fEQHtAEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋Children acquire their L1 entirely through interactions with other speakers; in the same way, L2 learners benefit from participating in conversations with native speakers. I take a discourse-functional view of native speaker competence, assuming that positive evidence (language in use), comprising both frequency and contexts of usage, plays an important role in native speakers' mental representations and acquisition of grammar. If we assume that any comfortably proficient L2 speaker cannot have acquired that language ability solely from textbooks or classroom instruction, then the question arises: in what ways does conversation help language learners acquire a discourse-based grammar mirroring that of native speakers? I address this question across three case studies, using data from twelve conversations, each between one native speaker and one non-native speaker of Japanese.