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Who is a native speaker of English,and what are the criteria that make him/her one ? Can't an Indian be a native speaker of English ?

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Question ajoutée par Francis Panikulam , Head of the English faculty , ISM International School.
Date de publication: 2015/03/12
Zuleigha Abderoef
par Zuleigha Abderoef , Instructor , Univ of Dammam

I have always assumed that a native speaker of a language is that person who speaks/communicates etc. in his/her mother tongue. Thus the first words that the infant utters would be his/her mother tongue (as the mother is the first teacher of her child) and thus becomes the native language of the child as he/she grows and becomes educated. Caution though the word 'native' has  negative connotations

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