English Language Teachers’ Views On Nativeness And Non-Nativeness Of English Teachers
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Date
2019
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Universal
Abstract
The debate of world Englishes has introduced some novelties to teaching English
within a lingua franca perspective that is relevant to the current position of English.
Based on the current status of English, communication with only native groups of
people does not seem realistic for English language learners. Thus, it hardly is
applicable to present one single standardized model of English to English language
learners. Instead, it becomes rather significant to offer them a non-standardized
English language by introducing world Englishes from different cultural and linguistic
backgrounds since the knowledge of English can no longer be constrained to one
single variety. This study tries to figure out native and nonnative English speaking
teachers’ differences in a teaching context from a nonnative English speaking teachers’
perspective. Collecting data from an open-ended questionnaire and semi-structured
interviews, the study aims to draw a clear picture of what nonnative English speaking
teachers think about themselves and their counterparts, native English-speaking
teachers, at their institution. The study has some significant implications regarding
English language teaching, attitude towards native and nonnative speaking teachers.
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English language teaching, native and nonnative English speaking teachers, English as a lingua franca, world Englishes, culture
Citation
III International Symposium for Young Scholars in the Humanities (Symposium proceedings)