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<div>While this is moderately amusing to those with a taste for
schadenfreude, it is not data which forces adoption of a
competence-performance distinction. Rather, this data strongly
suggests that language ability is not any sort of uniform trait, and
that language learning has fallen badly short here.</div>
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<div>Robin</div>
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color="#000000">I would suggest that anyone who claims there is no
competence/performance distinction in language is being terribly
unfair to Miss Teen USA, South Carolina</font></blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><a
href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj3iNxZ8Dww"
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj3iNxZ8Dww</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><tt>Peter Gordon, Associate Professor 525
W 120th St. Box 180 Biobehavioral Sciences Department Teachers
College, Columbia University New York, NY 10027 Office Phone: (212)
678-8162 FAX: (212) 678-8233 Web Page:
www.tc.edu/faculty/index.htm?facid=pg328</tt></blockquote>
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<div>Dr Robin N Campbell<br>
Dept of Psychology<br>
University of Stirling<br>
STIRLING FK9 4LA<br>
Scotland, UK<br>
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telephone: 01786-467649 facsimile: 01786-467641<br>
email: r.n.campbell@stir.ac.uk<br>
Website:
http://www.psychology.stir.ac.uk/staff/rcampbell/index.php</div>
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