How Colombia deals the consideration
of NET and NNET?
NET (Native English Teachers)
Usually favor the native speaker because of
that
Doesn’t account for the variability of
speakers at various levels (sociocultural
contexts)
They have an Standard English
(appropriate model for language
proficiency) which is also a Measure of
language ability
It’s only a biased
linguistic construct
Some people and even teachers (mainly
Primary School teachers) believe that NET are
better than NNET because learners should be
able to interact primarily with native speakers
Language ideologies
Nativespeakerism and
Standarization
Only the educated
native speakers
exhibit the standard
Monolingual Nativism
Places the idealized native speaker
within a monolingual idealized
context for its study
NNET (Non-Native English Teachers)
Unfavorable position compared to NET because of
Their non-ideal language ability and cultural
knowledge (“Imperfect users of the
language”)
Self-perception
Lacking the language ability that
NET have and Impression of
inferiority in comparisson
Perception of themselves as
having limited language
competence and their adherence
to the
Native speaker fallacy
Some Prospective teachers aim to
achieve native-like profiency and
mimic a native’s speaker
communicative performance
They face limitations with regard to their
knowledge or some language skills but they think
that those limitations didn’t have negative effects
in their performance
Their comprehension of contextual issues is
bigger because they are NNET instructors in
an EFL setting
Permanent acknowledgement
of their language difficulties
lead them to a negative
self-perception
Being stronger in their reading and
writing competences than in their
speaking ability