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NonnativeEnglishSpeakingTeachersSelfperceptions

Non-nativeEnglishSpeakingTeacher’sSelf-perceptions:

CaseStudiesofESLandEFLTeachers

ShihoAsato

APLING572:

CommunicationinL2Classroom

ProfessorK.E.Johnson

May7,2008

Introduction

ThisresearchappliestheReves&Medgyes（1994）andtheSamimy&Brutt-Griffler（1999）approachtosurveytheself-perceptionsoftwo（three）EFL/ESLnon-nativeEnglishspeakerteachers.

Reves&Medgyes（1994）conductedaninternationalsurveyof216NSandNNSEnglishteachersfrom10countries.Inordertorevealthedifficultiesnon-NESTshaveincommonandtosuggestwaystoimprovetheirpublicimageandtheirself-perception,theyconfirmedthefollowingthreehypotheses:

1）NSandNNSEnglishteachersaredifferintermsoftheirteachingbehaviors

2）Thesedifferencesinteachingpracticearemainlyduetotheirdifferinglevelsoflanguageproficiency

3）TheirknowledgeofthesedifferencesaffectstheNNSteacher’s‘self-perceptionandteachingattitudes.’

Theyfoundthatnon-NESTsacknowledgetheirdistinguishedimportantroleasanon-NESTintheEnglisheducation;though,theyhaveapoorerself-imageduetotheirawarenessofEnglish-languagedeficiency.Theysuggestthat‘frequentexposuretoauthenticnativelanguageenvironmentsandproficiency-orientedin-servicetrainingactivities’mayimprovetheirdifficultiesinthetargetedlanguage,anditwillleadtobuildinguptheirself-confidence.

Samimy&Brutt-Griffler（1999）appliedtheapproachofReves&Medgyes（1994）tothesurveyoftheself-perceptionsofNNSgraduatestudentsmajoringinTESOL.TheparticipantsperceivedadifferencebetweenNESTsandnon-NESTsintheirteachingbehavior,whichwasconsistentwiththeresultsoftheformerstudy;however,theyconsideredthatwhethershe/heisanativeornon-nativeisnotamatterforsuccessfulteachingEnglish,andothersocioculturalfactorscanbedecisivefactors,instead.

Theformerstudyissignificantinsurveyingthedifficultiescommonlysharedwithnon-NESTsfromvariousbackgrounds.Thelatterstudyisalsosignificantbyexemplifyingthatthecontextualfactor（ESLorEFL）wouldaffectnon-NESTs’self-confidence.However,thesestudiesdidnotreflectonAsianparticipants’perspectives.Onthebasisofthesestudies’approaches,thecurrentcasestudyaimstoexplorehowJapaneseandKoreanEFL/ESLteachersperceivethemselvesaslanguageprofessionals.Thecurrentstudysurveystwoparticipantswithdifferentteachingsettings.Itintendstocomparetheirself-perspectivesaslanguageprofessionalsandthedifferencesoftheirteachingsettingsandpersonalhistories.Thissmallscaleandethnographicalstudyislimitedinlightofgeneralizability.However,thesetwosetsofcasestudieshaveapotentialtoyieldarichdescriptionwhichisdifficulttobeachievedbylargerscalequantitativestudies.

TheStudy

ResearchQuestion

Thepurposeofthisstudyistoseehownon-nativeEnglishspeakingteacherspositionthemselvesasalanguageprofessional.Hereistheresearchquestion:

Howdotheparticipantsperceivethemselvesaslanguageprofessionalsintermsoftheirlinguisticcompetence,communicativecompetence,teachingmethodologiesandsoforthvis-à-visnativeEnglishspeakingprofessionals?

Participants

Participant1:

M（Japanese,female）

Thefirstparticipant,MisanEFLteacherofpublichighschoolinJapan.HerfirstlanguageisJapanese.Havingtakenfour-yearteachertrainingatundergraduatelevelinJapan,sheisnowanoviceteacherwithone-yearprofessionalteachingexperience.Heraverageteachingroadis19hoursaweek,andsheusuallyteachesatover-40-sizeclass.

Participant2:

H（Korean,female）

ThesecondparticipantisH.SheisaKoreanPhDstudentmajoringinAppliedLinguisticsinPSU.Asherjobofteachingassistantship,shehasbeenteachingEnglishfor7monthsatESLcourseforinternationalcollegestudents.Heraverageteachingroadisfivehoursaweek,andsheusuallyhas15to20studentsinaclass.Shetookfour-yearteachertrainingatundergraduatelevelinKorea.BeforecomingtotheUS,shehadtaughtEnglishatahighschoolinKoreaforoneandahalfyears.ThereforeshehasexperiencedbothESLandEFLteachingsettings.

DataCollection

Alldatawerecollectedbyquestionnairesandwritteninterviews.Whileoneoftheparticipants,HisintheUS,whichallowstheresearchertotakeafacetofaceinterview,theotherparticipantMisinJapan,whichisnotavailablefortheresearchertotakeaninterview.Inordertoofferfairsurveysettingswithbothparticipants,datawerecollectedinwritingsandexchangedviaemails.

Questionnaire

Thequestionnaireintendedtobrieflysurveyparticipants’educationalandinstructionalbackground,theirbeliefsinteachingEnglishandtheirperspectivestowardsnativeEnglishspeakingteachers