"Being a teacher does not come in shapes and sizes - does not define race and color. Being a teacher do serve as a guide and sage." There are prejudices going around that schools ONLY and PREFER native speakers and there you go listing the names of countries they are accepting. It is a bitter fact that Philippines is not included despite an English speaking country. I can not blame them for that having hundreds of dialects spoken in the country some have carried over the local tone. But does it really matter? What if some are bilingual and multilingual? I bet they are more flexible and talented as they can switch one language to the other. Taking myself, for instance, I am more fluent in speaking English better than Filipino in fact because my mother tongue is Ilocano, a dialect widely spoken in the northern area of the country. I also can (so when we say "can" it means "ability" so should clarify it) understand my parents' dialects which are ...
Language is a slice of cake. How is it possible to compare a slice of cake to language? A cake is usually baked as one whole pastry and in order to partake some, we need a knife to divide or slice it. Similar to a language, one whole cake symbolizes one whole language and language teachers share only a slice of the language in the classroom. A lot of students are over confident about having to know their target language or ambitious to be fluent in that language at the end of the school term. However, one language is wide and dynamic that it is even impossible to learn 1% of the English words in just one sitting. As the idiom goes, "it's a piece of cake" which means it's straightforward or a child's play - certainly not! What we are teaching the students is a small portion of the whole and this slice of knowledge must be relevant and useful for their daily lives and future careers. Baking a cake must be done meticulously and accurately when mixing ingredi...