Native-speakerism is an ideology that endows those classified as native English-speaking teachers (NESTs) the owners of English language, ideal models its use, and pedagogical experts in language teaching. These endowments, turn, intrinsically devalue non-native (NNESTs) (Holliday, 2006, 2017). In this study, a trioethnographic approach was adopted to investigate native-speakerism it related li...

In this paper, we propose a method for estimating a score for English pronunciation. Scores estimated by the proposed method were evaluated by correlating them with the learner’s pronunciation score which was scored by native English teachers. The average correlation between the estimated pronunciation scores and the learner’s pronunciation scores over 1, 5, and 10 sentences was 0.807, 0.873, a...

In future, the uses of English by non-native speakers will predominantly be online, using English language digital resources, and in computermediated communication with other non-native speakers of English. Thus for Korea to be competitive in the global economy, its EFL should develop L2 Digital Literacy in English. With its fast Internet connections, Korea is the most wired nation on Earth; bu...

Communicative language teaching (CLT) is promoted in teacher education programmes around the world, although the appropriateness of this methodology in contexts outside the English-speaking West has been questioned, often from a theoretical perspective. In fact, very little empirical research has been conducted into the practical knowledge of CLT of non-native speaker teachers of English, and t...

This study examined the contribution of both auditory and visual cues in native and non-native speech perception. Three groups of listeners, a group of native speakers of English and two groups of EFL learners (elementary and advanced), were tested on their perception of auditory-only, visual-only and audiovisual English stimuli. The audiovisual stimuli included a congruent (matched auditory-vi...

Pragmatic aspect of second language (L2) as a component of communicative competence has recently received more attention. Many research studies have investigated the gap between native and nonnative speakers’ command of L2 pragmatics. However, development of L2 pragmatics has been the focus of few studies. In this study, how coursebooks can help both nonnative teachers and learners develop L2 p...

Following Swales’ (1981) definition of genre analysis many scholars have attempted to characterize good academic writing; however, this can be difficult and worrying for non-native writers. Since a well-written abstract encourages readers more effectively, the present study intended to find differences in the rhetorical structures of abstracts by TEFL students from the University of Tehran (UT)...