Click the title to "listen" to the fellow NNEST's voice:

• Read the article "Proud to be a Nonnative English Speaker," written by Paul Matsuda, published at TESOL Matters, 2003.

• Should we call ourselves "Multilinguals" instead of "Non-native speakers"? Find out in the article "Language Learning Experience as a Contributor to ESOL Teacher Cognition," at TESL-EJ, 2006.

   

• Across cultures, English is the word, an article published on April 9, 2007, in which the reporter states that "English language no longer 'belongs' to its native speakers but to the world," and mentions Jun Liu, a past NNEST Caucus chair and first NNEST to be the president of TESOL (2006-2007).

• NNEST: More than Native Speakers (?) , by Brock Brady, 2007.

• Can a Nonnative English Speaker Be a Good English Teacher?

by Icy Lee, Hong Kong, from TESOL Matters, Vol. 10, No. 1, February/March 2000

 

• Teacher, You Got it All Wrong, by Christina Chang, Taiwan.

• Nuzhat Amin, a former member and author of many publications on advocacy to minority women professionals, such as Race and the identity of the nonnative ESL teacher and Nativism, the native speaker construct, and minority immigrant women teachers of English as a second language, passed away on May 21, 2007. Click here to sign our Guestbook.

 

 

 

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