NS = native speaker

[Herb Stahlke]

David,

It's found fairly widely in the ESL research literature, along with
NNS for Non-Native Speaker.

Herb

On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 11:01 PM, David Barnhart
<dbarnhart at highlands.com> wrote:
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> Has anybody here see or heard this abbreviation used?  I've found it in one
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