The document discusses key concepts and terms related to English language teaching. It provides definitions for common abbreviations like NEST (Native English Speaker Teacher), Non-NEST (Non-Native English Speaker Teacher), ELT (English Language Teaching), and describes the concentric circles model of the inner circle, outer circle, and expanding circle of English usage. It also defines important concepts such as EIL (English as an International Language), EFL (English as a Foreign Language), and ESL (English as a Second Language). The document notes some perceived weaknesses but also strengths of non-native English speaker teachers.
2. 1. what does NEST mean
?
a) New English Speaker Teacher
b) Non-English Speaker Teacher
c)National English Speaker Teacher
d) Native English Speaker Teacher
3. 2. What does Non NEST
mean?
a) No Native English Standard Teacher
b) Non Native Enrolled Speaker Teacher
c) Non Native English Speaker Teacher
d) No Native English Speaker Teacher
4. 3. What does ELT mean?
a) English Language Teaching
b) English Language Theory
c) English Language Teacher
d) English Language Theorist
5. 4. What are the concentric
circles?
a) The global, inner, and outside circle
b) The inner, outer, and expanding circle
c) The inside, outside, and widely circle
d) The extended, motivational, and widely
circle
6. 5.What is the inner circle?
a) It includes nations where English is the mother's
tongue.
b) It includes countries where English is the only language
spoken.
c) It includes countries where English is the language
used for any kind of process such as economic, social,
and cultural one.
7. 6. What does EIL
mean?
a) English as an International Language
b) English as an Inner Language
c) English as an Independent Language
d) English as an Ideology Language
8. 7. What is the Outer Circle?
a) It occurs in countries where English has been adopted as a
Second Language.
b) It occurs in nations where English has become an
International Language.
c) It occurs in countries where English has been adopted as a
foreign language.
d) It occurs in nations where English has been developed as
Center-Point Language.
9. 8. What is the Expanding
Circle?
a) It involves nations who have made the English Language an
International Mean of Life.
b) It involves countries who have adopted English as a second
Language.
c) It involves nations who have accepted English as a foreign
Language.
d) It involves nations who have taken English as the most
important Language spoken.
10. 9. What does EFL means?
a) English as a Focused Language
b) English as a Foreign Language
c) English as a First Language
d) English as a Fancy Language
11. 10. What does ESL means?
a) English as a Soled Language
b) English as a Second Language
c) English as a Security Language
d) English as a Semi-Structural Language
13. A Non-Native English Speaker
Teacher ( Non-NEST) may be
defined as:
For whom English is a Second or a Foreign
Language.
Who works in an EFL environment.
Whose students are monolingual groups of
learners.
Who speaks the same Native Language as his or
14. Differences between NESTs and
Non-NESTs.
NESTs and Non-NESTs differ in terms of
language proficiency.
They
differ in terms of their teaching
behavior.
They
can be equally good teachers on