In the BasqueAutonomous Community (

In the BasqueAutonomous Community (BAC),1most teachers of English as a
second or foreign language are non-native speaker teachers (NNSTs). Some
schools have native speaker teachers (NSTs) on their staff, particularly in private
institutions, but this is generally uncommon in primary, secondary and university
education. For instance, the English and German Philology Department of
theUniversity of the BasqueCountry (towhichwe belong) has only seven native
lecturers out of a total of 46 staff. Canagarajah (1999) states that 80% of the
world’s English language teachers areNNSTs. The number of peopleworldwide
learning English is steadily increasing, to the point where Kachru (1996) estimates
there are four non-nativeEnglish speakers for each nativeEnglish speaker,
a proportion similar to that of teachers of English. Non-native speakers of
English are and will continue to be in the majority (Samimy & Brutt-Griffler,
1999).