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poeticjustice
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 Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2009 8:21 pm Post subject: NETs, GETs, NSs, NSETs... just what are we? |
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I can never get a clear answer on that one. At my school they refer to me as "Native Speaker" or "Guest English Speaker" (lately). I don't really care which but I prefer to be called something with the word "teacher" at the end because I think the refusal by Koreans to refer to us as teachers takes us down a peg and disrespects us, especially in front of students who put a lot of emphasis on the teacher vs. instructor title.
What are you called and what would you like to be called?
What is our official title these days?
As a side note, I think anything with the word "guest" in it is stupid. I mean, most of us stay here for at least a year so we're not really "guests". |
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xingyiman
Joined: 12 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2009 8:24 pm Post subject: Re: NETs, GETs, NSs, NSETs... just what are we? |
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| poeticjustice wrote: |
I can never get a clear answer on that one. At my school they refer to me as "Native Speaker" or "Guest English Speaker" (lately). I don't really care which but I prefer to be called something with the word "teacher" at the end because I think the refusal by Koreans to refer to us as teachers takes us down a peg and disrespects us, especially in front of students who put a lot of emphasis on the teacher vs. instructor title.
What are you called and what would you like to be called?
What is our official title these days?
As a side note, I think anything with the word "guest" in it is stupid. I mean, most of us stay here for at least a year so we're not really "guests". |
I refer to us as "The Mighty Whitties"! |
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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| Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2009 8:43 pm Post subject: |
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NEST's?
Native English Speaking Teacher.......that doesn't really work though....sounds like you could be a native of Korea. |
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andrewchon
Joined: 16 Nov 2008
Location: Back in Oz. Living in ISIS Aust.
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| Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2009 8:45 pm Post subject: |
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| At my school I am Native English Teacher. |
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ardis
Joined: 20 Apr 2006
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2009 9:09 pm Post subject: Re: NETs, GETs, NSs, NSETs... just what are we? |
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| xingyiman wrote: |
| poeticjustice wrote: |
I can never get a clear answer on that one. At my school they refer to me as "Native Speaker" or "Guest English Speaker" (lately). I don't really care which but I prefer to be called something with the word "teacher" at the end because I think the refusal by Koreans to refer to us as teachers takes us down a peg and disrespects us, especially in front of students who put a lot of emphasis on the teacher vs. instructor title.
What are you called and what would you like to be called?
What is our official title these days?
As a side note, I think anything with the word "guest" in it is stupid. I mean, most of us stay here for at least a year so we're not really "guests". |
I refer to us as "The Mighty Whitties"! |
Is that supposed to be "whities?" because...you know that not everyone who teachers here and is a foreigner is white, right...? |
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