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The Handbook of ACTFL Guidelines explains this "educated native speaker norm" when stating "educated refers not to holding a degree or diploma," but to "using the speech or language generally associated with educated speakers in the native country".
Under the circumstances, should the CSE project accept or even encourage the departure from the native-speaker norm currently adhered to in English language teaching and assessment in China?
The five answer words showed the most frequent associations from many native speaker norming lists, whereas the five semantically related distractors were "infrequent responses given by only one native speaker in the norming lists; that is, these words represent potential but clearly more peripheral links in the lexical net" (p. 42).
In addition, we would add that the reference to native speaker norms and accuracy rate should also consider the age and conceptual development of L2 learners – if the learners are young children, such as in the case of *Schoonen and Verhallen (2008), it would seem questionable to use mature adult native speakers' responses to determine the accuracy rate for item inclusion or exclusion.
Both the issues of the native-speaker norm and translation as a major language skill discussed in the previous section, for example, have been addressed in the reform of the College English Test (CET), a large-scale, high-stakes English language assessment in China (Jin 2010, 2014; Yang 2003; Zheng and Cheng 2008).
Some of the issues listed above have been considered in the construction of the CSE when proficiency levels are described, but further research is needed to support and guide the transition from the native-speaker norm to the view of English as a lingua franca.
Higher learning in the native languages became the norm.
Waller helped to transmit to the Augustans a synthesis of the regular iambic norm with native English four-stress alliterative metre and showed its use for expressive emphasis, as in the line "Invíte affećtion, and restráin our ráge".
The other three participants found the reasoning compelling, implying that they subscribed to a view of the native speaker as the norm in language assessment.
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