These days, we talked a lot about the NS and NNS which I didn’t quite think about it before. For me, I think it is obviously that the NSs gain the predominance place on English teaching and will be more efficient than NNSs do, since they achieved a high degree of proficiency. For those native speakers, I think, no matter how worse their English is will be better than I do. But after I read my articles my point of view begins to change. I found it is true that sometimes NNSs are more suitable and more proper than NSs in English teaching.
I like the points the author sited in the passage. Only non-NESTs can serve as imitable models of the successful learner of English. Non-NESTs can teach learning strategies more effectively. Non-NESTs can provide learners with more information about eh English language. Non- NESTs are more able to anticipate language difficulties. Non-NESTs can be more empathetic to the needs and problems of their learners. Only Non-NESTs can benefit from sharing eh learners’ mother tongue. (P346) All of these advantages show me a clear way how to be a qualified teacher and who to balance the deficiency with NSs in English teaching.
In recent class, the topic reminds me thinking about my own experiences when I was in middle school. We have different foreign teachers for each academic year or only for a semester. We get along well with both the NESTs and Non-NESTS. I think they have a very clear division of their focus on teaching. For the text book which mainly talked about the vocabulary and grammar, we depended on the local teacher. They can give us a more accurate explanation and show us good examples; also sometimes we can negotiate in Chinese a little bit. The Chinese teachers can provide us more efficient materials and even some rules about how to understand it. The most important thing is that we can use all of these in our exams. That’s the point! The foreign teachers will become the most popular teachers when we have some speech competitions or if we need to perform a kind of shows. They really help most of the time, correcting of the pronunciation and intonation, helping us to be heard like native-like speakers. They help us find some plot which appropriate to be performed. Especially when we come across some cultural issues, the foreign teachers play unique and important roles. In this case, they acted perfect, but from the bottom of my heart, I don't trust or depend on my foreign teachers compare with my Chinese teachers. That does will make me feel freer and more willing to work with my Chinese teachers. The Chinese teachers will definitely be the first choice for the students even though the students know that the NSs may gain a higher proficiency in English. That’s funny! We have been doing this with the concept of NSs would be a better choice.
To be honest, this makes me feel more confident to be an English teacher when I go back to China. And now I know what an ideal non-NEST is according to the author. This will really helps in my future career.
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