[etni] Native English Speakers
- From: elizabeth yuval <maore29@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 15:59:22 +0200
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Native English speakers have the edge over non-natives in two respects that
come to mind right now: idioms and pronunciation. I have heard non-native
teachers say "make their homework" and "bleck," and made "flood" rhyme with
"food," as I have heard native English-speaking teachers who have, in a sense,
gone native and say "or...or" instead of "either...or," and "the man that his
car hit ours." But yes, regardless of whether the children are "native
speakers," which almost none of them ever is, or those who are still struggling
to differentiate between b and d (in the 12th grade), it is far preferable to
have native speakers of English as English teachers, native speakers of Hebrew
as Hebrew teachers, people with degrees in math as math teachers, people with
degrees in history as history teachers. That's part of what "good education"
means. Without the Zionism, please, I would like to see kids who turn into
young adults who go to university and don't have to cheat on exams or photocopy
entire notebooks at the end of the semester. Which isn't going to happen in
this country, not in my lifetime, at any rate. But that is the public school
system. If those Wall Street people are a private company, they can impose any
employment condition they see fit, whether it is language level or having a car
or eye color or whatever.
Elizabeth
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