Who make better English teachers: native or non-native speaker
teachers?  Posted on por 1 300x200 Who make better English
teachers: native or non native speaker teachers?  A NNS teacher
at work in primary school  It was Péter Medgyes (1994) who first
opened the floor for debate on this issue. For a long time,
there was a well-spread “prejudice”, started with Chomsky
(1965), that native speakers were better English teachers.
Scholars such as George Braine (1999) and Vivian Cook (1999)
have consolidated the research in the area, striving to
ascertain whether native speaker (NS) teachers are necessarily
better teachers than non-native speaker (NNS) teachers. In this
demystification, they have ultimately tipped the scale in favour
of the latter, asserting the status of NNS teachers of English
in the world.  Research has unveiled facts about NS and NNS
teachers which are often very different from the layman’s
perceptions:  The fact that NNS teachers of EFL have learnt
their English in very much the same context a