Cainntear wrote:reineke wrote:The pros sell "real French, " real this and real that all the time.
But that's marketing, not academic discussion.
"This is important, not only because authentic speech is the real, natural language which we ultimately want our students to understand, but also because it differs significantly from the contrived speech of pedagogical materials.. "
The Modern Language Journal, Volume 62
National Federation of Modern Language Teachers Associations, 1916
"... task-based language teaching helps learners to learn real language for use in the real world... "
Second Language Teaching & Learning, 1999
" ... emphasising the need to “learn real language use from real language use”
International Journal of Applied Linguistics and English Literature, 2014
Do we teach the real language?
An analysis of patterns in textbooks of Russian as a foreign language (2013)
https://benjamins.com/catalog/dujal.2.2.07matComparing real and ideal language learner input: the use of an EFL textbook corpus... (2004)
"... will be necessary to discover more about the kind of English we teach, its differences ... to be examined if we are to use real language as the basis for our teaching”(1993: 32 ..."
Corpora and Language Learners
edited by Guy Aston, Silvia Bernardini...
Taking a lexical approach to teaching: Principles and problems
N Harwood - International Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2002
"principle 1: teach real language, not 'teflese'; use computer corpora but be corpus-based, not corpus-bound."
While some authors put the word in quotation marks, they are still referring to authentic language use.