Title: Effectiveness of Teaching English in a Foreign Country by a Non-nativeSpeaker English Teacher (NNEST)
Abstract: In the field of English language teaching (ELT), a growing number of
teachers are not native speakers of English. According to current estimates, about
eighty percent of English teachers worldwide are non-native speakers of the
language. The term non-native English speaking teacher (NNEST) has created a
division among professionals in the ELT profession. English is taught commonly in
many countries where English is spoken as a second language or spoken widely.
Therefore, being a non-native English speaking teacher in your own country, where
English is the target language between you and your own local learners and
inevitably your mother tongue is used partly during the classes, is different from in a
foreign country where English is mutual language between you and your learners. In
that case, English is the only way for you and your learners in order to communicate
in every part of school life, in school activities or even in your daily life. Learners
feel like talking just the target language before, during, and after the classes
unavoidably. We can see the differences of learning English through a local nonnative
English speaking teacher, an English Teacher from the inner circle, and a
foreign non-native English speaking teacher, an English Teacher from the outer
circle, in terms of effectiveness of learning English among the language learners.
Publication Year: 2010
Publication Date: 2010-06-01
Language: en
Type: article
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