Yichen Liu

doi:10.70711/wef.v3i2.7848

Rethinking Native-Speakers: Decentralizing the Native Speaker Ideology in English as an International Language Pedagogy

Yichen Liu

Abstract

This paper will argue that the concept of the native-speaker idealism is contradictory with the principles and aims of EIL and demonstrates the risks it poses to teacher and learner identity. In this way, the paper argues for a paradigm shift to a less unified, pluralistic pedagogy of EIL which is more consistent with the sociolinguistic reality of global use of English.

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Native-Speakers; English as an International Language

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