If you work in the ELT industry, you may have heard that teachers are underpaid, or that they are not given enough hours, or that preparation time is not compensated.
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Should ESL teachers (only) be native speakers?
A NNEST is a non-native English-speaking teacher as opposed to a NEST, native English-speaking teacher. Currently, about 1.5 billion people in the world speak English and of those, less than 400 million use it as their first language (L1) according to the World Economic Forum. Chances are most teachers of English as a Second LanguageContinueContinue reading “Should ESL teachers (only) be native speakers?”
