How Colombia deals the consideration of NET and NNET?

How Colombia deals the consideration of NET and NNET?

1. NET (Native English Teachers)

   • Usually favor the native speaker because of
     • • that
         • Doesn’t account for the variability of speakers at various levels (sociocultural contexts)
         • They have an Standard English (appropriate model for language proficiency) which is also a Measure of language ability
         • It’s only a biased linguistic construct
         • Some people and even teachers (mainly Primary School teachers) believe that NET are better than NNET because learners should be able to interact primarily with native speakers
     • Language ideologies
       • Nativespeakerism and Standarization
         • Only the educated native speakers exhibit the standard
       • Monolingual Nativism
         • Places the idealized native speaker within a monolingual idealized context for its study

2. NNET (Non-Native English Teachers)

   • Unfavorable position compared to NET because of
     • Their non-ideal language ability and cultural knowledge (“Imperfect users of the language”)
       • Self-perception
         • Lacking the language ability that NET have and Impression of inferiority in comparisson
         • Perception of themselves as having limited language competence and their adherence to the
           • Native speaker fallacy
         • Some Prospective teachers aim to achieve native-like profiency and mimic a native’s speaker communicative performance
         • They face limitations with regard to their knowledge or some language skills but they think that those limitations didn’t have negative effects in their performance
         • Their comprehension of contextual issues is bigger because they are NNET instructors in an EFL setting
         • Permanent acknowledgement of their language difficulties lead them to a negative self-perception
         • Being stronger in their reading and writing competences than in their speaking ability