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Prof.Gringo
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 Posted: Mon Jan 03, 2011 4:58 pm Post subject: |
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| Enchilada Potosina wrote: |
| Isla Guapa wrote: |
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Let's keep in mind that there are many Mexican English teachers who can barely carry on a conversation in the language they profess to be able to teach. That could be one reason why many schools are reluctant to hire any of them. It's just easier to require that all teachers hired be native speakers and leave it at that. |
Yes, true enough, but I have bet more than a few who are quite fluent and very good teachers, probably better than a lot of native speakers. The least a school could do is hire on a case by case basis. |
I agree. I wonder why they don't. This is a guess on my part, but as a strong selling point, don't a lot of schools advertise that they are staffed with native-speaker teachers? |
Yes, as unfortunately Mexicans still equate the term 'native speaker' with 'good language teacher', and thanks to malinchismo language schools can still milk it for all it's worth. |
I wonder if the schools that advertise all native-speaker teachers have a way of getting around the law that Samantha mentioned. |
Well, you know Mexico, tons of laws but nobody around to enforce them... |
Ain't that the sad truth?  |
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