Understanding the mechanisms of the ghost of native-speakerism through unpacking my silent moments: an autoethnography

• Autores: Nugrahenny T. Zacharias
• Localización: Dismantling the Native Speaker Construct in English Language Teaching / Enric Llurda (ed. lit.), 2025, ISBN 9781003427537, págs. 101-117
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • In this autoethnographic tale, I tell my story as a nonnative English speaker teacher (NNEST) attempting to disentangle the ghost of native-speakerism—a metaphorical term I use to represent the dormancy and yet, powerful impact of native-speakerism—during the early years of being a faculty member at a predominantly white university in the US. While there are many studies illustrating the process of (re-)claiming a credible NNEST identity in a classroom setting, autoethnographies of NNESTs combating the ghost of native-speakerism outside the classroom continue to be limited. It is in this light that this paper aims to contribute. Through an autoethnographic approach, I trace three moments when I was mostly silent when participating in three community engagement activities where I took different roles: a workshop participant, a faculty mentor, and a co-facilitator. Using autoethnography, I unpack these silent moments to understand how NNESs’ silences are nuanced and complex. I conclude with the role of autoethnography in combating native-speakerism and how it can provide ways to understand NNESTs’ (hidden) voices.