If you want to fly you should be familiar with birds as it is their profession.It is also true for foreign language education.Students become more successful when they are teached by native speakers of the foreign language they try to learn since they force themselves much more in those situations and they get used to the way of thinking in the language in that way and they like not bothering themselves.
Some people support the idea that studying foreign language with non-native speakers is useful because they think the students can use their native language when they need help but in fact the problem is exactly that.If they cannot explain their problem or situation when it is required how and why do they learn the language?
In the cases in which the native language of the student and the teacher are the same they can just make guesses about how some particular mentalities in the language.But if the teacher is a native speaker of the language teached and so students are directly exposed to the original source they get accustomed to the way of thinking in that language, which is one of the crucial parts of learning a foreign language.
As students or having been a student in the past we all know that it is always the easy road they choose; therefore the end is very clear: The moment a student has difficulty in the language he/she switches into their native language and what is even worse is that teachers don’t mind it not to embarrass the student.Upon looking at this picture it is unnecessary to talk about its effectiveness.
In brief, I think anything which will be transferred should be a part of the transferrer in order to be successful in transferring.
Hi Gülşah,
ReplyDeleteFirst of all I agree with you on this issue. According to me also we should be teached by native speakers for acquaring language effectively. On the other hand,I think there are some difficulties in this situation as well but we should be able to keep up with these difficulties, shouldn't we? :)