Last week, we read and discussed the ad from Dave’s ESL Cafe in the classroom. The main two requirements almost appearing in every ad we found are “native speaker” and “working experience”. These really terrified me. The major I chose for bachelor and master are both focusing on English teaching. It is obviously that I will probably be an English teacher after graduation. From the ads and the overviews of the teaching fields, I found no chance to teach in expanding or outer countries at all, except my own country. It doesn’t matter where I am going to live or work, but I felt, to some extent, we NNESTS being ignored and denied by some sort of concepts, some unknown scholars and some notion. Does it mean that all these years what I learnt and expected are meaningless?
First of all, I am not a native speaker, but I am innocent, since I cannot choose my parents and their nationality. Or when I gain the chance to choose I cannot abandon my parents due to the language they speaking. I can try my best to be a native-like English users but no chance to change my accent and the living experience along with me. If I insist to be a teacher, then I need to change me major to Chinese teaching, then I become the first-choice among my entire colleague. Second, I cannot find the door or even a single window for the new teachers to enter the gate of teaching field by the barriers of “working experience.” So I really wonder how I can begin from an experienced teacher from the very beginning. I cannot forget those happy times that I spend with my assistant teacher who is young and just graduated from school. Those new ideas and attractive activities impressed us; since we can never gain from our previous teacher by his regular schedule. But it seems that I will never have the chance to share my learning experiences with my students.
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