A lot of attention has been devoted in the last 30 years to understanding nativeness and
what has traditionally been called non-nativeness. While many studies have attempted to …

Native-speakerism and authenticity are two subjects that have been written on extensively in
the field of English language teaching, but the links between the two have yet to be explored …

The emergence of empirical approaches to L2 pronunciation research and teaching is a
powerful fourth wave in the history of the field. Authored by two leading proponents of …

The Routledge Encyclopedia of Language Teaching and Learning is an authoritative
handbook dealing with all aspects of this increasingly important field of study. It has been …

Although the majority of English language teachers worldwide are non-native English
speakers, no research was conducted on these teachers until recently. After the pioneering …

The English language teaching industry in East and Southeast Asia subscribes to an
assumption that native English-speaking teachers (NESTs) are the gold standard of spoken …

Both native and nonnative language teachers often find pronunciation a difficult skill to teach
because of inadequate training or uncertainty about the effectiveness of instruction. But …

Embracing a sociocultural perspective on human cognition and employing an array of
methodological tools for data collection and analysis, this volume documents the …

Parallel to the growing recognition of English as an international language, the fundamental
premises of the TESOL discipline (eg, the ownership of the language, native speakers as a …

This paper investigates if and how job advertisements for English language teachers
discriminate against candidates with particular backgrounds. Based on an analysis of 77 …