Teachers' Nativeness and Oral Fluency

ISBN-13: 9786139470938 / Angielski

Mohammed Hadj Said; Dina Al-Jamal

Opis

It is to be stressed that the term "Native Speaker" is deceptive and does not really signify the language competence. Lee (2005) stated that using alternative terms instead of the "Native Speaker" shifts the attention away from 'who you are', to focus the attention on what we are actually attempting to accomplish in language teaching. Along with the previous claim, Davies (1996) questioned the issue by wondering about what to achieve, native speaker talk or English proficiency. The researcher believes that it is better to move over Native and Non-Native dichotomy, and asserts using the term "expert teacher, proficient teacher" or any other term that values the language competence rather than the teacher's identity.

O autorze

Hadj Said, Mohammed
Mohammed Hadj Said is an Algerian doctorate student. He graduated from Kasdi Merbah University of Ouargla, then he carried his MA studies at Yarmouk University of Jordan. Now, the author is an assistant professor at the Teachers' Training School of Ouargla, Algeria. He has many contributions to TEFL.