Hello all
On the 'native speaker' debate I recommend Ben Rampton's 1990 article in ELT Journal. Quite an old piece now, but still required reading for anyone tempted to divide the English-speaking world into 'native' and 'non-native'. Rampton rejects notions of 'native speaker' and 'mother tongue' in favour of consideration of people's expertise in a language, their language inheritance, and their affiliation towards a language. These are not necessarily all the same thing. The reference is:
Rampton, M. B. H. (1990) Displacing the 'native speaker': expertise, affiliation, and inheritance
ELT Journal 44/2, 97-101. The abstract reads:
The concepts native speaker and mother tongue are often criticized, but
they continue in circulation in the absence of alternatives. This article suggests
some. The terms language expertise, language inheritance, and language
affiliation sort out some of the mystification, and they allow us to
place educational questions of language ability and language loyalty alongside
a broader view of society.
If you can't get hold of this article, I can send you a .pdf version.
Cheers
James
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Also try:
The struggle to teach English as an international language
Adrian Holliday
Oxford University Press
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Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 14:01:50 -0400
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To the list,
If this is a topic that people on this list might want to take up, Color, Race and English Language Teaching: Shades of Meaning - edited by Andy Curtis and Mary Romney, is an excellent resource, (if you've not already read it). The contributed chapters explore the intricacies of being a TESOL professional of color. Whose language? Whose authority?
http://books.google.com/books?id=D0IAov9RElsC&pg=PA137&lpg=PA137&dq=%22color+race+and+english+language+teaching%22&source=web&ots=B5knevT-EX&sig=EEHNDuxwCH9xs33FbI_MRDPsHBA#PPA40,M1 <http://books.google.com/books?id=D0IAov9RElsC&pg=PA137&lpg=PA137&dq="color+race+and+english+language+teaching"&source=web&ots=B5knevT-EX&sig=EEHNDuxwCH9xs33FbI_MRDPsHBA#PPA40,M1>
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Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 16:34:46 +0000
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Subject: Native speaker debate
Are native speaker teachers automatically the best teachers of a language? Just because you speak a language naturally, does that mean you can teach it? Or does the process of learning a language to a high level of fluency make non-native speaker teachers far better equipped to teach that language?
You might like to read the discussion on this topic on the BBC Learn English website at;
http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/talk/polls/native-speaker-teachers <http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/talk/polls/native-speaker-teachers> <http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/talk/polls/native-speaker-teachers>
Ibrar
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