Overview of Strengths and Weaknesses of Native and Non-native English Speaking Teachers

摘要

More and more non-native English speaking teachers teach with native English speaking teachers in Chinese context or other non-English speaking countries. It is worthwhile to evaluate their strengths and constraints. The current paper discusses their differences in term of linguistic teaching characteristics, social culture teaching characteristics and pedagogical teaching characteristics. It concludes that two groups of teachers can be successful language teachers with the equal chances on their own terms and can make up for their constraints by applying certain patterns of collaboration.