Does Euro-Engllish have native speakers? Making sense of conflicting views

• Authors: Romuald Gozdawa-Gołebiowski
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This paper examines the status of European English (EE) in current linguistictheory, 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.

Keywords

EN

European English; native standards; nativespeakerhood; well-formedness

• Publisher: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
• Journal: Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 2
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 467-482

Dates

cover

2012-12

Contributors

author

Romuald Gozdawa-Gołebiowski

• University of Warsaw, Poland

Identifiers

ISSN

2083-5205

DOI

10.14746/ssllt.2012.2.4.2