[etni] Re: Native Speaker Teacher

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  Hi everyone
  I would like to add my 2 cents to this silly debate. When I was a child in 
South Africa, a native speaker of English would have been a black man or woman 
who spoke English.
  What is the point of this? Every "native" speaker is only a native speaker of 
the place he/she comes from.  A person from Scotland is not a native speaker of 
BBC English - which is some sort of an invention rather than a sort of English 
spoken in a specific place. Also someone from New York does not speak English 
the same way as a person from another part of America.
  I was once denied a job because I didn't speak AMERICAN English. So stop all 
this nonsense!
  What we want are good teachers, who care about their students and do their 
best to get the kids to get to the highest level of English the pupils are 
cabable of! 
  Anyway most of our students will speak English with an Israeli accent!!!!
  Best Wishes to everyone for a good summer so that they will return to the 
classroom full of energy to do a good job.
  Fay



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