>>In that sense authentic, and I'm now going to borrow
from the sort of popular jargon of what language teachers tend
to view that the simple definition is always language
produced by native speakers for native speakers to be consumed
in a native environment, so that kind of is just a general rubric
if you think of what's out there,
well almost all literature would fall into this category;
anything in the media, and in press, in a film, on television,
all of that's authentic.
That being said, not all authentic language is what we
want to bring to our classroom, so we are looking still
in a sense to manipulate, to massage good authentic materials
to make them appropriate for our classrooms.
But to give our students as much as we can,
the sense that they are indeed encountering the very language
they will encounter without question once they get
into country.