Despite these ratios, many still co

Despite these ratios, many still consider that foreign languages should be
taught by native speakers of the language. Phillipson (1992a) labels this the native
speaker fallacy.While some countries (e.g. Japan and Korea) actively recruit native
speakers of English, Samimy and Brutt-Griffler (1999) point out that teachers
from these countries oppose this policy, claiming that the NSTs often lack
adequate qualifications, and gain entry into the profession only because they are
native speakers. In the BAC, too, some NSTs lacking TEFL qualifications have
positions at language academies simply because of their native status.
Some language teaching organisations nowadays opt for a team-teaching
approach, in which a NST and a NNST share the same class. This has becomecommon in many contexts, including BAC, and also Japan