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Publication details [#41528]

Chipere, Ngoni. 2001. Variations in Native Speaker Competence: Implications for First-language Teaching. Language Awareness 10 (2-3) : 107–124.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

first language teaching | grammar1 | language proficiency | native speaker | working memory

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

Multilingual Matters

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

This paper examines whether variations in adult native English speakers' performance stem from variations in working memory capacity or from variations in procedural grammatical competence and discusses some implications for the teaching of first-language grammar.