Pragmatic perspectives on the preparation of teachers of English as a second language: Putting the NS/NNS debate in context

Educational Linguistics

Volumn 5, Issue , 2005, Pages 179-191

  Derwing, Tracey M ^a   Munro, Murray J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

English language teaching; Language teacher; Native speaker; Pragmatic perspective; Student teacher

Indexed keywords

EID: 85091173559     PISSN: 15720292     EISSN: 22151656     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/0-387-24565-0_10     Document Type: Chapter

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