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06-17-2011, 10:19 AM

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Originally Posted by evanny View Post
Realism. are you stupid or just pretending?
doesn't matter who speaks better but teachers better!

and yes. i would rather take non-Japanese teacher who knows how to teach rather than a Japanese homeless person.
In addition to what godwine said, what if the non-native teaches better, but can't speak as well as the native speaker?
Doesn't that mean they could potentially just be brilliant at teaching mistakes?
Meaning that students would in a way be practicing imperfection...
Of course the same can be said of a native speaker teaching mistakes, but at least they are more likely to be "natural mistakes".

If the person teaching is genuinely fluent then yes, I think teaching ability is a deciding factor, and in the end it doesn't matter if the teacher is native or not.
But if the teacher is not fluent, then I would be quite wary of what they were going to teach me and would rather opt for a native speaker who isn't as good at teaching.

So in my opinion, it just depends...

Last edited by yuriyuri : 06-17-2011 at 01:12 PM.
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