Questioning the Dominance of Native-English Teachers in ELT Profession
Abstract
It is often assumed that native-English teachers are the best teachers in the teaching of English. This results in the preference towards native-English teachers and the isolation of non-native English teachers when it comes to English teaching profession. This assumption should not be perpetuated. English teaching researches have shown that native-English teachers are not always the ideal teachers in the teaching of English. The findings of the researches state that non-native English teachers have more advantages compared to the native ones especially in the context of English as an international language where English can no longer be associated with only English-speaking countries. This paper discusses the issue of the preference towards native-English teachers and the isolation of non-native English teachers.
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Kachru, B. (1992). The other tongue: English across cultures (1st ed.). University of Illinois Press.
Kirkpatrick, A. (2010). English as a lingua franca in ASEAN. Hongkong University Press.
Lasagabaster, D., & Sierra, J. M. (2005). What do students think about the pros and cons of having a native-speaker teacher? In L. E (Ed.), Nonnative language teachers: perceptions, challenges and contributions to the profession (pp. 217–242). Springer.
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Ma, L. P. F. (2012). Strengths and weaknesses of NESTs and NNESTs: Perceptions of NNESTs in Hong Kong. Linguistics and Education, 23(1), 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.linged.2011.09.005
Mahboob, A. (2003). Status of nonnative English-speaking teachers in the United States (unpublished doctoral dissertation). Indiana University.
Matsuda, A. (2019). World Englishes in English language teaching: Kachru’s six fallacies and the TEIL paradigm. World Englishes, 38(1–2), 144–154. https://doi.org/10.1111/weng.12368
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Purba, R., Herman, H., Purba, A., Hutauruk, A. F., Silalahi, D. E., Julyanthry, J., and Grace, E., (2022). Improving teachers’ competence through the implementation of the 21st century competencies in a post-covid-19 pandemic. Jurnal Masyarakat Mandiri, 6(2), PP. 1486-1497. DOI: https://doi.org/10.31764/jmm.v6i2.7340
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Walkinshaw, I., & Oanh, D. H. (2014). Native and non-native English language teachers: Student perceptions in Vietnam and Japan. SAGE Open, 4(2). https://doi.org/10.1177/2158244014534451
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Published
2022-06-30
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SIHOMBING, Tahan HJ.
Questioning the Dominance of Native-English Teachers in ELT Profession.
Pioneer: Journal of Language and Literature, [S.l.], v. 14, n. 1, p. 179-186, june 2022.
ISSN 2655-8718.
Available at: <https://unars.ac.id/ojs/index.php/pioneer/article/view/1680>. Date accessed: 27 nov. 2024.
doi: https://doi.org/10.36841/pioneer.v14i1.1680.
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