IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication Jan 2000

Going beyond the native speaker in technical communication

J. Temple Dennett

Abstract

Vivian Cook, University of Essex, advises his fellow EFL (English as a Foreign Language) teachers to view their students as multicompetent language users rather than as deficient native speakers. The same advice can readily be given to technical writers and editors who may occasionally struggle to adapt the writing of nonnative speaking (NNS) engineers, researchers, and programmers to style book norms. This approach certainly applies to those of us who work with or manage NNS colleagues. Although addressed to language teachers, the author considers how Cook's observations have validity for many workplace interactions in the growing international community.

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IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication
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2000-01-01
DOI
10.1109/47.867950
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technical communication multilingual writers
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