Some Characteristics of Native and Non-Native Speaker Teachers of English.

McNeill, Arthur

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Title: Some Characteristics of Native and Non-Native Speaker Teachers of English.

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Title:	Some Characteristics of Native and Non-Native Speaker Teachers of English.
Authors:	McNeill, Arthur
Descriptors:	Classroom Techniques; Comparative Analysis; Difficulty Level; English (Second Language); Foreign Countries; Language Teachers; Native Speakers; Problem Solving; Reading Comprehension; Reading Instruction; Second Language Instruction; Teacher Attitudes; Teacher Characteristics; Vocabulary Skills
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Publication Date:	1994-00-00
Pages:	14
Pub Types:	Speeches/Meeting Papers; Reports - Research
Abstract:	This study compared the performances of four groups of Hong Kong teachers of English as a Second Language on a language teaching task. Subjects were two groups of native English-speaking teachers, one of expert teachers and one of novices, and two groups of non-native English-speakers, one of experts and one of novices. All were asked to preview an English text and select 12 words they thought would be unfamiliar to a specific student level. A group of 200 students from Hong Kong secondary schools took vocabulary tests on the same text. Comparison of the results suggests that native-speaker teachers are at a distinct advantage in identifying problematic vocabulary in connection with reading texts, and that while teaching expertise can improve non-native-speaking teachers' ability, it can actually obscure the judgments of non-native speakers by interfering with their more intuitive judgments about vocabulary difficulty. The text used is appended. Contains 11 references and 5 tables. (MSE)
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Note:	In: Bird, Norman, Ed., And Others. Language and Learning. Papers presented at the Annual International Language in Education Conference (Hong Kong, 1993); see FL 023 205.
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Languages:	English
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