Tag: racism
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Non-Native Speakers of English need not apply
As the profession moves away from obsolete beliefs about the perceived advantages of ‘nativeness’, the University of Athens continues to discriminate.
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“Exclusively hiring native speakers is not discrimination” Seriously?
A reaction to prevailing practices in language education that continue to discriminate against qualified teachers who are not native speakers
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Race and TESOL
One of the many passages I have underlined in The Reflexive Teacher Educator in TESOL by Julian Edge is the following: Javier (2010) also reports the difficulties of establishing her acceptability to students as their English teacher, while belonging to what she terms a ‘visible ethnic minority’. Put simply, looking Filipino and teaching English in China…