Program Administrators’ Perspectives on the Recruitment of Native and Non-Native English – Speaking Teachers


Bayram Akçelik D., Öztürk R. Ö., İnal D.

English Language Teaching in the 21st Century: Changing Identities, Agencies and Mindsets, Dilek Uygun Gökmen,Aslı Yılmaz Ercan,Işıl Ruacan Silahtaroğlu, Editör, Marmara Üniversitesi Yayınevi, İstanbul, ss.165-177, 2020

  • Yayın Türü: Kitapta Bölüm / Araştırma Kitabı
  • Basım Tarihi: 2020
  • Yayınevi: Marmara Üniversitesi Yayınevi
  • Basıldığı Şehir: İstanbul
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.165-177
  • Editörler: Dilek Uygun Gökmen,Aslı Yılmaz Ercan,Işıl Ruacan Silahtaroğlu, Editör
  • İstanbul Üniversitesi-Cerrahpaşa Adresli: Evet

Özet

The study aimed to investigate how administrators of foreign language schools prioritize their criteria for recruiting English language instructors and specifically what importance they place on an instructor’s being a native English speaker. To that end, the participants were invited to consider not only Turkish teachers of English as the non-native group but also the foreign teachers coming from different nationalities whose native languages were not English. Data were collected by means of a questionnaire completed by the administrators of foreign language schools at three state and four foundation (non-profit) universities located in İstanbul, Turkey. Results of the study indicated that although there was a consensus on teaching demonstration, teaching experience  and educational background as the most important criteria, different practices regarding recruitment of non-native English-speaking teachers were reported.