MAKING
THE TRANSITION FROM NON-NATIVE SPEAKER TO NEARNATIVE
SPEAKER
TEACHERS OF ENGLISH: FACING GLOBALIZATION
CHALLENGES
IN TEACHING ENGLISH
Haja Mohideen Bin Mohamed Ali
There are found three group of english speaker;
native speaker, near- native speaker and non- native speaker. According to Bloomfield (1933), a
native speaker is one who uses a language
from birth, habitually. Non-
native speakers of a language, do not use the language habitually. While near- native speaker is who can go back
and forth between their native and target language with ease.
How
can we develop our competence? It can be done if:
1.
Seek conversations with native speakers
of the language in social and professional contexts.
2. Work
towards achieving all the components of communicative competence.
3. Try
to develop a near-native accent by listening to very good models of the language
on the mass media (a near-native accent will not erode the national or ethnic
identity of foreign language or non-native speaker teachers).
4. Watch
programs in the target language without relying heavily on the sub-titles.
5. Read
newspapers, magazines, books and online materials in the target language.
6.
Participate in newspaper columns and
opinion sections online.
I
always want to be a great teacher so l have some palns:
1.
Competence in all possible ways:
linguistic, sociolinguistic and discourse competence so that l can make my
students competent.
2. Inviting
native speaker for reference in taeching
3. Encourage
them to practice not only in the school but also where ever they are
4. Make
film
5.
Role play