Does Euro-English have native speakers? Making sense of conflicting views
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2012
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Zakład Filologii Angielskiej Wydział Pedagogiczno-Artystyczny Uniwersytetu im. Adama Mickiewicza w Kaliszu
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This paper examines the status of European English (EE) in current linguistic
theory, in particular the hotly debated issue of whether or not it is possible to
treat EE as an endonormative linguistic variety in its own right. Alternatively,
EE may remain a form of English as a foreign language (EFL), and the decision
has far-reaching socio-political consequences. Some relevant data from Polish
English is discussed in this context. It is argued that there is no reason to reanalyse
the observed deviations from English native standards as simplifications
or innovations characteristic of a new language. The debate is shown to
relate to the opposition between utilitarian and epistemic goals in foreign language
teaching methodology, as exemplified by the dichotomy between competence
and performance or between training for interaction and training of
the faculties of the mind.
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European English, native standards, nativespeakerhood, wellformedness
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Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2012, vol. 2, no. 4, pp. 467-482.