An Investigation of Freshmen’ Attitudes Toward Their Native and Nonnative English Teachers

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10.2991/icemct-15.2015.274How to use a DOI?

Keywords

freshmen’attitudes, native-English-speaking teacher (NEST), nonnative-English- speaking teacher (NNEST)

Abstract

With the advancement of globalization, more qualified English teachers are needed in the field of ELT. The different roles of native speakers and nonnative speakers in EFL and ESL teaching and particulars to the issue of the dichotomy of native-English-speaking teachers (NESTs) and Nonnative-English-speaking teachers (NNESTs) have been focused on by many researchers and scholars. This paper is an attempt to find out EFL freshmen’ attitudes towards their NESTs and NNESTs and the correlations between the freshmen’s’ evaluation of the specific teaching features and their satisfaction towards these two camps of teachers. The findings of the study are expected to better understand these two camps of teachers and exert their teaching potential.

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© 2015, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Dan Zhou
AU  - Lulu Hou
PY  - 2015/06
DA  - 2015/06
TI  - An Investigation of Freshmen’ Attitudes Toward Their Native and Nonnative English Teachers
BT  - Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Education, Management and Computing Technology
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 1328
EP  - 1331
SN  - 2352-5398
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