The Construct of Native Speakerism Corrodes Language Learning
Image from: Pinterest, all rights reserved The Construct of Native Speakerism Harms the Core of Language Learning “ Speak English like a native ” is a marketing punchline, therefore loaded with a touch of frivolousness. It is disorienting and stresses the external, shiny appeal of speaking English in a Briton accent. Frankly, setting off to an unrealistic venture might feel less appealing than its realistic, yet rough and laborious counterpart; the acquisition of English as a foreign language-free of the inherent compulsiveness to sound like a native. The cohort English language teachers is familiar with native-speakerism- a notoriously blurry narrative. The risk involved is that vagueness wrecks havoc on the human brain. It engenders a rush to no clear destination: Is there an ideal native speaker to support such a comparison? As concluded by Lowe and Kiczkowiak (2016), scholars recognize now that speakerhood, similarly to race, is not a biological but rather a so...