WEAKNESSES AND

STRENGTH OF NATIVE AND

NON NATIVE SPEAKER
EDUCATORS

SUCI AZANI PUTRI

TRIANI OKTARINA
 ISSUE

What are Native and Non Native

Speakers Educator?

What are their Weaknesses and

their Strengths?
Cook) (1999

Native speaker is someone who has learned English as first

language in childhood.

Non Native speaker is someone who has learned particular

language as second or third language, but has a different
language as native language.

Medgyes (1994)

classifying native and non native educators as two different

group based on their level of proficiency and different language
behavior
Native speakers
and non native
speakers have
their own way
to teach the
classroom. However as the
development of English in
Indonesia, the English course
and private schools prefer to
employ Native Speakers
Educators than Non Native
Speakers educators

What are the strengths

and the weaknesses of
native and non native
speaker educators?
Samimy and Brutt-Griffler (1999)
Modiano (1999) states that especially
argue that NSE are more aware of
young learners have positive
learner’s need, they speak English
attitudes towards their NSE as they
more confidently and they are
display a good model of the target
potentially more accomplished users
language.
of English.

Lasagabaster and Sierra (2005) in

Modiano (1999) states that especially
their study come to the conclusion
young learners have positive
that students perception towards NSE
attitudes towards their NSE as they
are quite positive in terms of
display a good model of the target
developing language skills such as
language.
speaking, writing, reading, etc.
 METHOD

the data based on five (5)

qualitative research which
international journals which
uses content analysis
are ELSEVIER – Procedia,
technique
Social and Behavior

1. A comparison of classroom interaction patterns of native and nonnativeEFL teachers

(2012) by Banu Inan.

2. Students’ preferences regarding native and non-native teachers of English at a university

in the French Brittany (2015) by Noemi Rámila Díaz.

3. Native and Non-Native English Language Teachers: Student Perceptions in Vietnam and
Japan (2014) by Ian Walkinshaw and Duongthi Hoang Oanh.

4. Strengths and weaknesses of NESTs and NNESTs: Perceptions of NNESTs in Hong Kong (2012)
by Lai Ping Florence Ma.

5. Evaluating the contributions of native and non-native teachers to an English Language

Teaching program (2012) by Serkan Gurkan a , Dogan Yuksel,
 RESULT
Native and Non Native Speakers Educators are in equal position

NES don’t
NES has understand
strength on local and NES are good
fluency, education in motivating
pronunciatio system students
n, creative
flexible
NNES
NNES are understand
good at local and
communicati education
ng but lack NNES tend to
system and
of use mother
students’
confidence tongue.
background
s

Linguistic Socio-Cultural Pedagogical

NATIVE AND NON NATIVE ARE NOT BETTER IN EVERY
ASPECTS OF TEACHING AND LANGUAGE
THANK YOU