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Sep 8, 2016 · English speakers love to learn this sort of thing for two reasons. First, it astonishes us that there are rules that we didn’t know that we knew. That’s rather peculiar, and rather exciting.
- Native English speakers are the world’s worst communicators
The non-native speakers, it turns out, speak more...
- Native English speakers are the world’s worst communicators
Oct 31, 2016 · The non-native speakers, it turns out, speak more purposefully and carefully, typical of someone speaking a second or third language. Anglophones, on the other hand, often talk too fast for others ...
Dec 3, 2019 · Native speakers find them hard enough to read; second language speakers find them even harder. But do put numbers on slides, they say. Numbers can be hard to understand in your second language and ...
Jun 29, 2023 · Sadly, and predictably, its answer reflects a history that positions ‘native’ language as culturally, racially and linguistically superior, aspirational, standard-setting and the benchmark of acceptability. In positioning ‘native speakers’ as such, we inevitably create a ‘non-native’ opposite – inferior, deficient, non-authentic ...
- Yangyang Cheng: A Complicated Issue
- Sneha Dharwadkar: Have An Open Mind
- Vera Sheridan: It Takes A Partnership
- Clarissa Rios Rojas: Reach Out For Mentoring
- Tatsuya Amano: Embrace Linguistic Diversity
- Montserrat Bosch Grau: Improve English-Language Education
- Michael Gordin: A Long and Unfair History
Physicist at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. The incident at Duke University brought a lot of attention to a complicated issue. The professor who complained about Chinese students speaking in their native language was rightly called out on social media. But, as someone who was born and raised in China, I have my own perspective on what happ...
Wildlife biologist at the Centre for Wildlife Studies in Bengaluru, India. I find that scientists in India often look down on people who can’t speak English. I work in the field of conservation. When scientists come here from Europe or North America to conduct field research, they have a strong preference for employing English speakers. They assume...
Language and intercultural relations researcher at Dublin City University. I started out in life speaking another language. My family and I were refugees who fled Hungary during the revolution of 1956. I sympathize with students who are trying to learn English on top of everything else. I helped to compile a list of resources (see go.nature.com/2wx...
Director of Ekpa’palek in Valkenboskwartier, the Netherlands. I’m from Peru and am a native speaker of Spanish. Being from abroad has some advantages. Laboratories are becoming more international, so it’s helpful to be able to bond with people of different nationalities. It’s easy for me to engage with scientists from Italy and Portugal because the...
Zoologist at the University of Queensland, Brisbane. As a native speaker of Japanese, I’ve struggled with language barriers. But science is struggling, too. Consider the field of conservation, in which much research is still conducted in the local language. In a 2016 study in PLoS Biology, my colleagues and I surveyed more than 75,000 biodiversity ...
Director of in vitro studies at Sensorion in Montpellier, France. My PhD funding at the University of Girona in Spain included a ‘mobility budget’ to support international collaborative work. Thanks to that opportunity, between 2000 and 2002, I was able to spend a total of 12 months at a National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) lab in Montpel...
Professor of modern and contemporary history at Princeton University, New Jersey, and author of Scientific Babel (Univ. Chicago Press, 2015). There’s nothing about English that makes it intrinsically better for science than any other language. Science could have gone just as far in Chinese or Swahili. But many economic and geopolitical forces made ...
- Chris Woolston, Joana Osório
- 2019
Sep 6, 2021 · The ideology of native speakerism and its effects on the professional lives of ‘native’ and ‘non-native speakers’ in English language teaching (ELT) have been widely documented. Nevertheless, little is known about the impact native speakerism might have on the selection of plenary speakers for ELT conferences.
• English is the world’s common language. English has come of age as a global language. It is spoken by a quarter of the world’s population, enabling a true single market in knowledge and ideas. It now belongs to the world and increasingly to non-native speakers – who today far outnumber native speakers. • English gives the UK
