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I came across this 2014 study on Native and Non-Native English Language Teachers
A couple of points I need to clarify
1st thing I need to clarify is that I am talking about All native language teachers, not just Native English-speaking teachers
2nd clarification I would like to give is that, when I talk about students, I mean you, a person watching this video, an adult, a person with Internet.
The article’s authors are Ian Walkinshaw and Duongthi Hoang Oanh who carried out research with university students in Japan and Vietnam exploring the advantages and disadvantages of learning English from native and non-native English speaking teachers
and even though their findings are in support of non-native English speaking teachers their conclusion leaves a bad taste in my mouth
they conclude that their findings are one more nail in the coffin of the notion that, space, space, space, non-native English-speaking teachers are second-class educators and inherently inferior to native-speaker teachers,
they basically conclude that native English-speaking teachers are the default first-class educators, inherently superior to non-native speaker teachers, perpetuating the myth of native speakers are the best teachers
Non-native speaking teachers are first-class educators and inherently superior to native-speaker teachers
It says in the introduction that native English-speaking teachers are the ideal model for language production. Their speech is held up as the gold standard of grammatical correctness and perfect pronunciation
We are off to a bad start folks
Nobody in their right mind would ever doubt that native speakers have the best pronunciation and grammatical accuracy, that’s what native means. However, the article has the word TEACHER in the title, who is the better teacher, not speaker
Knowing something and Teaching something are 2 very distinct, separate areas of expertise
The study explores two research questions:
Research Question 1: What advantages or disadvantages do learners identify about learning English from a native English-speaking teacher?
Research Question 2: What advantages or disadvantages do learners identify about learning English from a non-native English-speaking teacher?
And here is where everything falls apart
Don’t the authors know that there is a difference between learning from somebody and being taught by somebody,
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