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The Impact of Applied Linguistics: Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of BAAL University of the West of England 76
14 Relevance and Influence of Phraseological Phenomena in Native and Non-native Text Production Cordula Glass Relevance and Influence of Phraseological Phenomena in Native and Non-native Text Production Cordula Glass University of Erlangen-Nurmberg cordula.glass@angl.phil.uni-erlangen.de A native-like linguistic competence is often quoted as one of the main objectives of advanced language teaching. Yet despite a good command of lexis and syntax, few learners become truly proficient users of their selected target language. “It’s not wrong but it’s not proper English either” is what students often hear (Wray, 2000). Therefore this study took a closer look at learners’ lexical choice with respect to language perception in general and judgment of nativeness in particular. A special focus concentrated on phraseological phenomena, which are - as Hausmann (1984) already pointed out thirty years ago - particularly challenging for learners of a foreign language. In more recent studies Waible (2008) and de Cock (1999) were able to show that native speakers and learners of English use indeed different phraseological expressions and are therefore easy to identify. Yet, Mittmann (2004) argues that this would also be true for speakers from different varieties of English, so the question remains, if these differences play any role as far as the judgment of a speaker’s linguistic ability is concerned. In a corpus-based analysis a database of over 120 non-native and native texts has been analysed according to characteristic phraseological features. These results were then used as a basis for a more qualitative approach: Following the methodology of Herbst (1992), native and non-native teachers of English as well as native and non-native speakers without any background in EFL teaching were asked to evaluate a sample of eight texts. These texts were all based on the same picture story and written by more and less competent L1 and L2 speakers of English. With the help of an online questionnaire these short stories were then subdivided into short paragraphs, which the participants assessed and ranked in terms of “nativeness”. In most cases, correct English phrasing did indeed have an impact on the perception of its reader. Unsurprisingly, native speakers of English have 77
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