In this episode of the live English show, we’re going to talk about Native Speakerism, a pervasive ideology in the ELT (English Language Teaching) industry that promotes discrimination and inequality suggesting that native speaking teachers are more qualified and skilled to teach English as a second language as they represent the standard of English speaking and teaching.

We see it in marketing, teaching and writing, we see it in YouTube videos as well as how learners perceive what good teaching is. This prevents many work opportunities from highly qualified teachers and robs students of the experience of working with excellent teachers.

To learn more about Native Speakerism: https://bit.ly/3kST31F

On the show, I will talk to Marek Kiczkowiak who has been working towards raising awareness and battling discrimination in the ELT industry for many years.
He will share his story as well as tips and resources to help students and teachers battle native speakerism.

Marek runs TEFL Equity Advocates and Academy, where he helps teachers tackle native speakerism and teach English for global communication: https://teflequityadvocates.com/

TEFL Equity Advocates and Academy YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/c/TEFLEquityAdvocates

He also helps university students and researchers write better theses and papers on Academic English Now: https://academicenglishnow.com

Academic English Now on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/c/AcademicEnglishNow