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 various iterations of studies Global Englishes, much has been written about native-speakerism. However, Kumaravadivelu asks why the intellectual output not substantially altered power dynamics between ‘native’ and ‘non-native’ speakers. This article conducts a critical historiography native-speakerism shows how it is fundamentally implicated in mobilization race racial inequality operational...

Native-speakerism is a crucial issue to discuss in ELT, especially related the different ideological views on World Englishes and ‘standard’ English. Differences ideology about English its variations have an impact teaching implementation. Many studies examined discrimination practices driven by native-speakerism educational contexts such as preference of teacher recruitment which prefers teach...

In view of the paucity of evidence on teachers’ conceptions of teaching English an International Language (EIL), the present study used panel discussions to investigate the beliefs of 10 native and 10 non-native English-speaking teachers about their roles in teaching English in the EIL contexts and the perceptions of EIL. The findings revealed that some aspects of teachers’ beliefs about their ...

This article explores native speakerism, a chauvinistic ideology, in reference to relevant literature. It first exposes its ideological essence and adverse effects on English language teaching (ELT), then moves deconstruct the speakerist practices concerning teachers, norm, cultural foundation of ELT curriculum, methodology, particularly approaches communicative (CLT) task-based (TBLT). Through...

Abstract A lot of attention has been devoted in the last 30 years to understanding nativeness and what traditionally called non-nativeness. While many studies have attempted problematize dichotomic division between so-called native speakers non-native speakers, several others specifically focussed on language teaching profession order understand aspects related identity performance teachers who...