The native English teachers' expectations in teaching EFL students

Tgk Maya Silviyanti,Dara Junita,Sofyan A Gani

doi:10.24815/siele.v8i1.17271

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Research into students’ expectations towards native English speakers or teachers has been commonly investigated for years, yet the significant exploration of native teachers’ perceptions towards their foreign students are rarely examined. This study tries to find out the Native English Speaker Teachers’ (NESTs) expectations in teaching English as a foreign language (EFL) students. The data were compared with Gani et al.’s (2015) previous study of EFL learners’ expectations toward their native teachers. The participants in this study were two native English teachers who are currently working at Universitas Syiah Kuala, Banda Aceh, Indonesia. The interview was selected as the instrument to collect the data. The interview guide was designed and formulated based on a list of questionnaires that originated from Wu and Ke (2009). The interview with each teacher was recorded and the results were transcribed. The findings show that NESTs generally have similar expectations with the EFL students regarding speaking rate, learning environment, accent preferences, and assignments. However, diverse expectations occurred on the subject of syllabus design, grading system, grammatical correction, and pronunciation articulation. The results are further discussed in the paper. Consequently, the findings of this study can be used as a reference for both native teachers and EFL students in fulfilling the goal of learning in the classroom.

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There is a never-ending debate about who has the ‘better’ capacity to teach English to English as a foreign language (EFL) learners; putting an echo of stereotypical belief of proficiency level between the Native English Speaker Teacher (NEST) and the Non-Native English Speaker Teachers (NNEST) in the spotlight
One of the general challenges for both NEST teachers and EFL students in ELT classrooms is the fact that both parties are coming from opposite cultures and languages
The results suggest that there were some similar expectations between the EFL students and the NEST teachers

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There is a never-ending debate about who has the ‘better’ capacity to teach English to English as a foreign language (EFL) learners; putting an echo of stereotypical belief of proficiency level between the Native English Speaker Teacher (NEST) and the Non-Native English Speaker Teachers (NNEST) in the spotlight. For this reason, an emphasis on equal treatment between both parties is needed to be considered. 6) might be one of the reasons for this NEST tendency This assumption led to discouragement for some non-native teachers, as they believed that they might be rejected unqualified to be English teachers (Gibreel, 2018)

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