Native Speakerism in Target-Culture Expectation: Chinese Perception of Native and L2 Idiom Usage

Questioning the use of monolingual native speaker’s idealized competence as the benchmark for defining and assessing L2 teaching and learning, this empirical study investigates whether nativeness of the speaker impacts native Chinese speakers’ perception of idiom usage. Utilizing the Matched Guise T...

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Published in:	Journal of the National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages
Main Author:	Xin Zhang
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages 2022-09-01
Subjects:	nativespeakerism target-culture expectations chinese idioms native speaker/l2 learner stereotyping speech perception
Online Access:	https://ncolctl.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Nativespeakerism-in-Target-Culture-Expectation.pdf