Having a significant role in communication, speaking skill is an inborn and improvable ability. Since their existence, human beings have consistently improved this ability in order to communicate with others. Besides, one of the most fundamental keystones of making a healthy contact and living in harmony with different societies are no doubt being…

Native English Speaking Teachers (NESTs) have been employed in various English language teaching (ELT) positions and departments at private and state universities in Turkey, particularly over the last three decades. However, undergraduate EFL students' attitudes toward NESTs and Non-Native English Speaking Teachers (Non-NESTs) remain seriously…

I examine how American students respond to foreign instructors, who teach English Composition and Research Writing. I discuss how minority teacher's cultural, lingual, and ethnic differences interfere with classroom dynamics in the United States. I rely on my experiences as a Turkish instructor of composition at the University of Wisconsin,…