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The ESL Times / Spring, 2003
English Teachers Should Always Be Native Speakers of the Language
By: Mario Guzman
(Mexico)
In a country like the U.S., it is easy to find colleges with programs
for those who want to learn English, and there are institutes dedicated
only to doing that. Most of them have different difficulties. One of these
problems is that the students are from other countries all over the world.
So, the students in the “English as a Second Language” programs
have a lot of difficulties at the beginning; and some of them may think
it would be better to learn English with a teacher familiarized with their
own idioms. Maybe, it could be an advantage, because a teacher who speaks
the students’ language might understand them better, but it is possible
that their teaching techniques maybe be limited by their knowledge.
So, a teacher who speaks more than one language would probably be a good
teacher, but the best teacher would probably be the one that knows the
language, and can teach, the best.
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