Proceedings of the - British Association for Applied Linguistics
Proceedings of the - British Association for Applied Linguistics
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The Impact <strong>of</strong> <strong>Applied</strong> <strong>Linguistics</strong>: <strong>Proceedings</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> 44th Annual Meeting <strong>of</strong> BAAL<br />
University <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> West <strong>of</strong> England<br />
hardly any problems to identify texts written by non-native speakers <strong>of</strong><br />
English. However, this study also suggests that phraseological mistakes and<br />
a wrong choice <strong>of</strong> register give away <strong>the</strong> identity <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> writer even more<br />
clearly than grammatical errors do. Fur<strong>the</strong>rmore, L1 teachers <strong>of</strong> English<br />
tend to be more tolerant in <strong>the</strong>ir evaluation than non-native speakers are;<br />
especially with phrases, which are quite close to <strong>the</strong>ir own mo<strong>the</strong>r tongue<br />
in wording and structure. On <strong>the</strong> o<strong>the</strong>r hand non-native speakers without an<br />
EFL background are more easily mislead by a very confident, non-learnerstereotypical<br />
style.<br />
These findings support two suggestions, namely, once more <strong>the</strong> assertion<br />
that <strong>the</strong>re is in fact such a thing as a learner group specific phraseology and<br />
that native like phraseology within a text does not only trigger a<br />
corresponding evaluation <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> authors background but also that <strong>the</strong>se<br />
factors are partly more influencing than <strong>for</strong> example grammar. Hence <strong>the</strong><br />
use <strong>of</strong> native-like phraseology within a text seems to be a ra<strong>the</strong>r influential<br />
factor, which should be taken into consideration in <strong>the</strong> assessment <strong>of</strong><br />
linguistic competence as well as <strong>for</strong>eign language teaching and teacher<br />
training.<br />
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