Making the transition from non-native speaker to near-native speaker teachers of English: facing globalization challenges in teaching English

Many job advertisements seeking teachers of English to work in Japan, China, South Korea and Thailand, for instance, specify that they are looking for native speaking teachers from USA, UK, Australia and New Zealand. They do not seem to be interested even in trained non-native speaking teachers from...

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Main Author:	Mohamed Ali, Haja Mohideen
Format:	Conference or Workshop Item
Language:	English
Published:	2009
Subjects:	L Education (General) PE English
Online Access:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/6560/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/6560/1/ED507603.pdf

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spelling	iium-65602011-11-21T18:04:49Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/6560/ Making the transition from non-native speaker to near-native speaker teachers of English: facing globalization challenges in teaching English Mohamed Ali, Haja Mohideen L Education (General) PE English Many job advertisements seeking teachers of English to work in Japan, China, South Korea and Thailand, for instance, specify that they are looking for native speaking teachers from USA, UK, Australia and New Zealand. They do not seem to be interested even in trained non-native speaking teachers from their own countries. This situation also exists in many other countries where there is clear preference for native speaking teachers. This paper discusses the characteristics, according to scholars in language acquisition, that a native speakers can aspire to approximate to the notion of nativeness in language output. Even though the concept of a native speaker, for that of English has become somewhat subjective due to its globalized role, there are some basics that define a native speaker. A non-native speaker is generally who does not speak a particular language as his/her first language. 2009 Conference or Workshop Item NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/6560/1/ED507603.pdf Mohamed Ali, Haja Mohideen (2009) Making the transition from non-native speaker to near-native speaker teachers of English: facing globalization challenges in teaching English. In: International Conference on Development 2009 (ICO2009), 28-30 July 2009, IIUM. (Unpublished)
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description	Many job advertisements seeking teachers of English to work in Japan, China, South Korea and Thailand, for instance, specify that they are looking for native speaking teachers from USA, UK, Australia and New Zealand. They do not seem to be interested even in trained non-native speaking teachers from their own countries. This situation also exists in many other countries where there is clear preference for native speaking teachers. This paper discusses the characteristics, according to scholars in language acquisition, that a native speakers can aspire to approximate to the notion of nativeness in language output. Even though the concept of a native speaker, for that of English has become somewhat subjective due to its globalized role, there are some basics that define a native speaker. A non-native speaker is generally who does not speak a particular language as his/her first language.
format	Conference or Workshop Item
author	Mohamed Ali, Haja Mohideen
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title	Making the transition from non-native speaker to near-native speaker teachers of English: facing globalization challenges in teaching English
title_short	Making the transition from non-native speaker to near-native speaker teachers of English: facing globalization challenges in teaching English
title_full	Making the transition from non-native speaker to near-native speaker teachers of English: facing globalization challenges in teaching English
title_fullStr	Making the transition from non-native speaker to near-native speaker teachers of English: facing globalization challenges in teaching English
title_full_unstemmed	Making the transition from non-native speaker to near-native speaker teachers of English: facing globalization challenges in teaching English
title_sort	making the transition from non-native speaker to near-native speaker teachers of english: facing globalization challenges in teaching english
publishDate	2009
url	http://irep.iium.edu.my/6560/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/6560/1/ED507603.pdf
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Making the transition from non-native speaker to near-native speaker teachers of English: facing globalization challenges in teaching English

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