international [cat] lady of mystery: Native vs. Non-Native English Speaking Teachers

Monday, May 6, 2013

Native vs. Non-Native English Speaking Teachers

Do you remember back in January when I asked anyone who had ever taught English in Asia to help me out by participating in a survey? Well, our proposal to present our research project at the 2013 Sunshine State TESOL was accepted... unfortunately, the conference is May 16-18 and I leave for Kyrgyzstan on May 9th. Ooops. The other two members of our group are actually presenting at the conference, and I'll be participating via youtube video. Haha. Since some of our survey's participants expressed interest in our results, here's my absurd youtube video and our results. The results of the survey were divided up between native speaking English teachers and non-native speaking teachers.

Question 1: What are the STRENGTHS of native-speaking English teachers?

Question 2: What are the WEAKNESSES of native-speaking English teachers?

Question 3: What are the STRENGTHS of non-native speaking English teachers?

Question 4: What are the WEAKNESSES of non-native speaking English teachers?

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I'm an American woman, I'm in my thirties, and I blog under the pseudonym of Annie Nimity. I'm a world traveler, an animal lover, English teacher, and an avid amateur photographer. I've traveled to fifteen countries outside of the US thus far (not nearly enough!), and of those, I've spent extensive time in Russia, South Korea, and Kyrgyzstan. (My Russia-specific blog is here, and my Kyrgyzstan-specific blog is here. My posts about Korea appear on this blog, under the South Korea tag.) My pets are Charlie the cat (she's a girl, despite her name and her amazing 'stache) and Mochi the dog. They have their own Facebook page, located here.