Native or Polish teacher?

[Gość: max]

What would be your choice and why?

[Gość: O]

A native+ Polish teacher in 1...lets say a person who is as good in both
languages...or maybe just a little worse in Polish!

[Gość: ???]

the best would be chinese who speaks a little english
and a little polish

[artnat]

Native teacher?

Send a chemistry teacher to teach Polish in England an you'll have the same
effect.
He speaks Polish, but can he teach them something? Well, I doubt.

A native can't teach you too much, but with natives you can practice a fluency
of speaking.

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[Gość: O]

" A native cant teach you too much"...thats total bull......where did you get
that from? Can you tell me why it isn't possible for a native to teach
well.......all a native has to do is learn all the basic grammar rules to know
how to explain these things...have a little experience and i ensure you that he
will be better than any Polsih teacher.

[Gość: yola]

I'm afraid that there are very few people who can talk about the language
(unless they have some linguistic knowledge gained during their studies). How
many Polish people would be able to explain a sentence order in Polish? Or
distinguish between noun cases to explain the endings used? Speaking a
language fluently (like natives do) is one thing, but speaking about the
language and grammar rules is something completely different.

In my opinion, in the early stages of learning a foreign language a good
Polish teacher is indispensable to give good foundations. In more advanced
stages a native speaker alone would be sufficient.

[Gość: Tomek]

For me the best option is to have a polish and native english teacher together.

This was made in my prewious school. We had five lessons a week with a polish
teacher on wchih w we were learning all the grammar and other stuff, and once
a wee we had a meeting with a native speaker and we were just having a chat
about recent events. The best I think was playing soccer with kids from other
classes while being "unabled" to speak polish (because our native did't like
when we were talking in polish).

Sorry for mistakes:)

[Gość: 1]

Who knows? There are good natives and good Polish teachers. Remember - Native
speaker does not mean qualified teacher. Best is a naturally gifted teacher
with an education to back it up. A Polish teacher should have proficiency level
and a pedagogical background, a native already has a good level of English
(hopefully) and also should have the pedagogical background. Beware of native
speaker cowboys with no teaching certificates, equally beware of Polish
teachers with teaching certificates but no language certificates.
If you're looking for a language school those are the questions you should be
asking about their teachers. I believe you are within your rights to ask to see
a teacher's certification.
All schools cost a lot of money - if they want your money they should be
willing to fight for it by proving the quality standards in the school which
are, of course, entirely dependent upon the quality of the teaching staff.
Good luck

Native or Polish teacher?

[Gość: Borsuk]

Gosc 1 talks a lot of sense. A good teacher is a good teacher. Make sure you
ask language schools what qualifications their native speakers have. They
should have a CELTA (Cambridge) or Trinity certificate - these are the basics
for a native going abroad to teach English, i.e. certificates in practical
teaching skills. There are plenty of 'cowboy' native speakers around, but
there are many who know exactly what they are doiing, as their qualifications
should show. I