This article discusses the contribution that native English-speaking teachers (NEST) can make to Korea`s EFL education. By reviewing the present status of NESTs in Korea and their teaching behavior, it explores how NESTs and non-native English teacher...
This article discusses the contribution that native English-speaking teachers (NEST) can make to Korea`s EFL education. By reviewing the present status of NESTs in Korea and their teaching behavior, it explores how NESTs and non-native English teachers (non-NEST) can work together to provide students with more opportunities to improve their communicative competence. The article suggests that NESTs and non-NESTs should attempt to compensate for each other`s disadvantageous teaching behavior so that some of the gaps may be narrowed. In order to investigate how the difference of NESTs` and non-NESTs` teaching specialty acted upon college students` English learning, the summative and feedback-oriented evaluation was conducted on the communicative General English program of Sunchon University.