Redressing the balance in the native speaker debate: assessment standards, standard language, and exposing double standards

In his philosophical novel, Thus spoke Zarathustra, Nietzsche (1883‒85), famously wrote, ‘God is dead,’ signifying that God is no longer credible as an absolute moral compass. Over a century later, Paikeday (1985), proclaimed that The native speaker is dead! in his book title, implying that the nati...