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One flew east, one flew west, and NNESTs flew everywhere.

17 de junho de 2014

The challenge of being a non-native English speaker in a native English speaking world I recently came across EFL teacher James Taylor’s blog post about NNESTs’ struggle to be respected as English teachers by students and employers. In his guest blog post, James lists a number of advantages of being a NNEST over a...Read More

Career, Reflections about Education, Teacher Development

Brazil, career, James Taylor, language proficiency, native speakers, NEST, NNEST, non-native speakers

Lesson 1: Native and non-native teachers; horses for courses

by Paul Seligson

Long ago, in 1981, before many of you were even contemplated, I was teaching at the British Council, Cairo, Egypt. An expensive, imported gringo, I was energetic, attractive, hirsuit, super-keen having just done my second TEFL diploma, and feeling like ‘Superteacher’. But, I quickly learned some important pedagogical lessons. I’ll blog a few of them...Read More