Thursday, December 29, 2011

Natural Order

Thursday, 29 December 2011

Even though it is still technically a holiday in our house, my daughter’s nose is already back to the grindstone as she works on several projects for her TEFL studies and teaching me things I didn’t know I knew. She was putting together a grammar test to compare the awareness of grammatical rules in native and non-native English speakers (NS and NNS). Her theory is that NS will use the rules without realising they’re doing so while NNS will be much more aware of the rules.

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