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About TEFL Equity

Hi! My name is Marek and I’m the founder of TEFL Equity Advocates & Academy. I profoundly believe that all English teachers, regardless of their nationality or mother tongue should be judged based on their ability to teach and given equal professional opportunities. That’s why at TEFL Equity we’ve been working hard to provide you and other ELT professionals with tools to promote equality and tackle native speakerism.

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Learn how to teach English as a Lingua Franca

Help your students communicate more effectively in international contexts. Tackle native speakerism by focusing on internationally intelligible English. Want to learn more and receive weekly email tips bout teaching English as a Lingua Franca? Sign up below:

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Learn How to Teach English as a Lingua Franca

While we all know that English is – and has been for a long time – the global lingua franca, primarily used for communication between its ‘non-native speakers’, this idea is yet to have a meaningful impact on how we teach the language. In this book, written together with Robert Lowe, we suggest how we could teach English as a Lingua Franca (ELF), and how this might differ from teaching EFL or ESL.

We review over 20 years of research about ELF language use and present over 40 practical activities showing how this research can be applied in class to teach listening, pronunciation, communicative skills…

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"If I were in charge of a language-teaching institution, I would not be interested in where the teachers were born, what their first language was, or whether they had a regional accent. There are absolutely no grounds for discrimination these days."

"The TEFL Equity Advocates campaign is absolutely necessary. We need more and more voices in our industry to speak out against discrimination and inequality, to support the cause of equality in diversity and to promote professionalism and collaboration among teachers of diverse backgrounds.”

"From a purely personal point of view, I have to say that many of the best teachers I have observed, or the best conference presenters I have witnessed, or the most inspiring colleagues I’ve had the pleasure to work with, just happen to have started life speaking a language other than English. "

I think this is a brilliant cause and it’s about time something was done to raise awareness and bring equality and balance to our profession. As a non-native teacher myself I have had to overcome quite a few prejudices over the years and people’s preconceived ideas of what an English teacher should look like and be.”

“I wholeheartedly support the aims of this blog – the ending of discrimination against more than 96% of the teachers of English in the world. Or maybe 98%…..or more…”

"I’m deeply impressed with this campaign because it doesn’t simply make bold statements or pass passionate judgement- it actually provides an intelligent and culturally-sensitive roadmap towards making changes that will have ripples in policy and practice alike."

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Why the native vs non-native debate completely misses the point

It’s been a while since I went on a rant on this blog, but I hope I’m not out of shape yet. There is something

December 4, 2019 4 Comments

How to Develop Your Students’ Communicative Skills Through Role Plays: Paraphrasing by Carolin Zehne

Previously on this blog, I shared a lesson plan which helped students understand unfamiliar (non-native speaker) accents of English, which they are likely to encounter

November 10, 2019 No Comments

How to write materials and lesson plans for teaching English as a Lingua Franca

Finally, after many previous unsuccessful attempts, I had a paper published in ELT Journal (yay!). ELTJ is one of my favourite ELT peer-reviewed journals for

October 30, 2019 1 Comment

How to Tackle Native Speakerism: The Four Levels of Change

I’m sure you’re all aware of the countless job ads for ‘native speakers’ only that just don’t seem to go away, but morph into job

October 23, 2019 No Comments

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If you would like to learn how to promote equality, tackle native speakerism and teach English for global communication, check out our on-line training programs.

What People Say About These Courses

"Thanks so much for these courses! Illuminating and informative and thought-provoking and the beginning of a long and wide discussion"

"If you teach English in an international context, you must follow these short courses with Marek, a recognized leader in the field of English as a Lingua Franca and native speakerism."

"The content of these courses is highly recommandable; very well-tailored, knowledgeable and relevant to teaching and beyond. Thanks to your sharp insights and findings, I no longer feel alone as a non-native English teacher. "

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