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Originally Posted by gfell  CELTA course providers exist to make a profit and will gladly take your money for a teacher course whether you are a native English speaker or not. CELTRA training places are businesses looking to turn a profit. You are the customer!
Schools on the other hand want to promote their schools with faces of native English speakers and use this fact in advertisements and flyers. Much easier for them to get students if they employ native English speakers.
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Schools on the other hand want to promote their schools with faces of native English speakers and use this fact in advertisements and flyers. Much easier for them to get students if they employ native English speakers.
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So, basically ESL/EFL field is just like any other types of business? It's about what's hot in the market?
Do you agree with the statement written by George Braine entitled "NNS and invisible barriers in ELT" for Nonnative English Speakers in TESOL (NNEST) Caucus? He wrote "Many administrators and teachers appear to view ELT as the last domain of the NS, to be defended at any cost. This attitude is highly ironic, considering the professions' strident championing of multiculturalism, diversity, and other sociopolitical causes, often on behalf of ESL students and immigrants. Although ESL students are praised and admired for the multiculturalism and diversity they bring into language classes, NNS English teachers, who can also contribute their rich multicultural, multilingual experiences, are often barred from the same classes."