This paper attempts to argue that in the age of‘World Englishes’, it is not necessary to differentiate native speaker teachers from non-native speaker teachers. It is concluded that non-native speaker teachers can be as effective as their native colleagues and they have equal chance to achieve professional success, even though native speaker teachers have great advantages over non-native teachers in some aspects. It is time for employers, as well as ELT professionals to shut their eyes to the glaring differences between native speaker teachers and non-native speaker teachers and optimize such unique resources.
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机译:A Comparison between Portuguese and Chinese Adjectives - A Contribution to the Teaching of Portuguese for Chinese Native Speakers =葡汉形容词对比及其在葡语对汉教学上的意义