Teacher and student preferences of native and nonnative foreign language teachers.

Toward An Understanding of Plurality: A Case Study of Teaching and Learning English as an International Language (EIL) Approach in an Indonesia Senior High School

“…This is supported by Madrid and Cañado (2004) it remains that the native-nonnative issue still high trend interest in the field of ELT and a lot of studies have been conducted into the matter. There are not few researches also led to debate both NEST and NNEST hierarchically.…”

Biological students’ perception of the advantages and disadvantages of learning English with native and non-native English-speaking teachers

“…A majority of biological students preferred learning pronunciation with native English-speaking teachers because these teachers could pronounce more accurately (4.33/ 5.0 points) and it was easy to practice (4.05/ 5.00 points). It is obvious that pronunciation is one of the most important aspects of a language (Çakir & Baytar, 2014) and native English-speaking teachers can have better pronunciation than non-native English-speaking teachers because they master the language they teach (Madrid & Canado, 2004;Çakir and Demir, 2013;Walkinshaw & Duong, 2014;Sevy-Biloon, 2017;Yazawa, 2017). This result is also similar to what Thien and Hung (2018) found that students wanted to study pronunciation with native English-speaking teachers because of their using of accurate English.…”

“…Most of biological students also liked studying listening, speaking and reading with native English-speaking teachers. Students chose them because the belief was that they were better (Merino, 1997;Tajeddin & Adeh, 2016), especially at speaking and listening (Çakir & Demir, 2013), they also had a greater self-confidence (Madrid & Canado, 2004), and used it as a natural means of communication in class (Árva & Medgyes, 2000;Madrid & Canado, 2004). However, all the average scores were less than 4.00 points for all reasons they selected.…”

“…These problems may not be solved easily by native teachers in details because of the language barrier. Moreover, native teachers were lack of knowledge of the students' mother tongue, this influenced the lack of sympathy between the teacher and students (Madrid and Canado, 2004).…”

“…Literature A lot of good research on learners' perception of the advantages and disadvantages of learning English with native and non-native English teachers have been done in the world. The study on "Teacher and student preferences of native and non-native foreign English teachers" showed that students' preferences for native teachers increased with academic level (Madrid and Canado, 2004). The research by Alseweed (2012) in Qassim University with 169 Saudi male university students (non-English major) to get their perception when studying English in the classroom with native and non-native Englishspeaking teachers indicated that they liked studying with native English teacher, especially in the higher level.…”