Mino Loi

Yesterday at 1:26 AM

I recently came across someone comparing English to another language and claiming that its respective native speakers should teach it.
Then I thought...does this comparison really hold water? hasn't English become a global language? Can't anyone reach such a high level of knowledge to be entitled to teach it to others? You might be a NNES and an expert at the same time.
So..is it still unnatural to be an English teacher?

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Aissa Inrl To kill it, I know many Algerian professors who teach English in Universities like EAST CAROLINA university and others in native countries, so how come? English teaching and English speaking are two completely different things..now that life in English speaking countries is getting hard, they all moved to teaching English in Asia for example as life is easy and salaries are good... in addition to all this they brought the idea of skin color and NES -NNES just to make themselves well positioned to teach English wherever they want
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Definition. NNES. Non-Native English Speaker. NNES. National Nuclear Energy Series.

Mohammed Baybars Mehdi 9/10, when NNES make these posts, there are basic gramatrical errors in them! I rarely see a post from a NNES with correct punctuation, for example.
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Nigel Stonham In Austria, this is a topic for me. I am happy that Austrians teach English, I am happy that some of them ( one I recall had studied in Manchester and was telling jokes in Mancunian ) are "native" . Some people have learned English to more than a "native" level... not hard these days it seems,. given the source material of many learners ( youtube videos of people commenting on other peoples videos or game playing, rather than radio 4 which I "suffered" ? ) What I take exception to is teachers "putting kids down" at age 12 who have better English than them, because they are the teacher, and out of their depth, given what kids can learn online , through songs, etc. I am also, and plan to mention it here, planning to offer a tandem program for non native teachers to have regular contact with native speakers, to enable continuous professional development of the language and culture that as I understand is the essence of good teaching...:-)
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