Description
As non-natives are increasingly found teaching languages, particularly English, both in ESL and EFL contexts, the identification of their specific contributions and their main strengths has become more relevant than ever. This volume provides different approaches to the study of non-native teachers: NNS teachers as seen by students, teachers, graduate supervisors, and by themselves. It contributes seldom-explored perspectives, like classroom discourse analysis, and social-psychological framework to discuss conceptions of NNS teachers. Contributing -Authors -Acknowledgments -Looking at the perceptions, challenges, and contributions or the importance of being a non-native teacher -PART I: Setting up the stage: Non-native teachers in the twenty-first century -A history of research on non-native speaker English teachers -Cultural studies, foreign language teaching and learning practices, and the NNS practitioner -PART II: NNS teachers in the classroom -Basing teaching on the L2 user -Codeswitching in the L2 classroom: A communication and learning strategy -Constructing social relationships and linguistic knowledge through non-native-speaking teacher talk -Non-native speaker teachers and awareness of lexical difficulty in pedagogical texts -PART III: Perspectives on NNS teachers-in-training -Non-native TESOL students as seen by practicum supervisors -Chinese graduate teaching assistants teaching freshman composition to native English speaking students -Pragmatic perspectives on the preparation of teachers of English as a second language: Putting the NS/NNS debate in context -PART IV: Students’ perceptions of NNS teachers -Differences in teaching behaviour between native and non-native speaker teachers: As seen by the learners -What do students think about the pros and cons of having a native speaker teacher? -‘Personality not nationality’: Foreign students’ perceptions of a non-native speaker lecturer of English at a British university -PART V: NNS teachers’ self-perceptions -Mind the gap: Self and perceived native speaker identities of EFL teachers -Non-native speaker teachers of English and their anxieties: Ingredients for an experiment in action research -Index.
