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		ACTFL Annual Convention and World Languages Expo

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Paper Proposal for 2008 ACTFL Convention Paper presenter: Alan Aimin Li Affiliated institution: Dartmouth College Email: alan.a.li@dartmouth.edu Phone: 617-484-2345 Speaking Idiomatically: A Choice in Information Structuring An important goal for language teaching is to get students to speak the target language not only grammatically but also idiomatically. Very often idiomaticity lies in cultural appropriateness in language use. But there are also other parameters that affect idiomaticity of language use. One of them is the native speaker’s habitual way of
sentence. Very often we see students produce sentences that are grammatically acceptable but conventionally anomalous such as 核电站对环境有不大的危害（对环境危害不大） 如果你有汽车，汉诺威是一个住得很好的地方（住在汉诺威很不错）. When students try to use the target language creatively they tend to unconsciously transfer the habitual ways of information structuring in their native language to the language they are learning. Awareness of such a patterned difference between English and Chinese can help the teacher identify the cause of their students’ problem and come up with effective solutions. This paper will