Anniversary 

By Francisco Gomes de Matos  

Language teachers world wide

Achieve a lot 

They have 

Achieved So much

They will achieve much more 

Why?

They believe in humanising  

Language Teaching

Probing the verb Humanize

By Francisco Gomes de Matos 

To Humanize? 

Humanity dignity to recognize 

Humanity Peace to globalize 

Humanity kindness to prioritise

"Good Morning: I am a mother tongue english teacher."

"We are both first-language English speakers"

"I am a Canadian citizen"

"I am an English teacher with dual nationality, Italian-American."

These are just a few sentences from emails I've received from people looking for work. They are all things that I do not look at when hiring a teacher. I am quite clear on our website and social media profiles that I am against native speakerism. It's not because I wouldn't hire native speakers but I wouldn't hire a teacher based on that alone.

Therefore, if your first sentence is "I'm a native speaker", I'm not going to hire you. You clearly haven't taken a few minutes just to look at who we are and what we believe in.

Your nationality has zero impact on your ability to teach a language.

Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

https://www.ted.com/

Katrina King

Edited to add:

This post has blown up in a way that has never happened before on LinkedIn. Thank you for all your reactions and comments. I apologise for not being able to respond to all of you. If you are interested in helping us fight native speakerism and discrimination in ELT, please join the ELT Equity & Inclusion group:

https://lnkd.in/enhG7qhe

Mein neuester Titel ist online!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SksjXk2WMHI

LG Walter

Enjoy