This is just a very quick email to let you know that TEFL Equity Academy - our on-line learning platform for English teachers - now has a blog! :)

And I kicked off the blog with a very frequent assumption that I've heard on numerous occasions from teachers, students and recruiters when discussing native speakerism: 'native speakers' are better at teaching pronunciation.

Whenever you start discussing the 'native speaker' fallacy, this argument is bound to come up.

You know, 'native speakers' have the right, the natural accent.

They speak with the correct pronunciation.

And students can learn bad pronunciation from 'non-native speakers'.

Or something along those lines.

You might intuitively feel that there's something wrong with this assumption, but what arguments would you use to question it?

Or maybe you feel that there's a (substantial) grain of truth behind it, and that indeed 'native speakers' are better suited to teach pronunciation.

Whichever opinion is closer to yours, you'll definitely enjoy the first post on the blog.

You can read it here.

Best,
Marek Kiczkowiak
Founder, TEFL Equity Advocates
Trainer, TEFL Equity Academy