Should the government ease restrictions on English teaching ARC sponsorship for non-natives?

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In Taiwan, only native english speakers can receive a work sponsorship to work as english teacher. Additionally, there is a high demand of english teaching job opportunities.

But what about non native english speakers? They cannot teach english legally or get a work sponsorship not matter if they have an excellent level in english. And they usually have to teach english illegally.

All countries where english is the official language are rich countries or first world countries. But countries like latinoamericans are third world countries that are affected by corruption, poverty and lack of job opportunities. Therefore most of their population tend to emigrate.

Should laws be equal to allow others teach english, a high demand job, in Taiwan?
Please share your comment and your experience.

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Your post answers itself.

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Yes, it´s not fair. English is a very universal language. Why cannot any foreigner teach english and get a work sponsorship if their english is almost native?

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I’ll go with because of this sentence. Would you want an “almost dentist?”

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dentist is a degree. You get graduated from a college.

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The main requirement Taiwan schools ask for foreigners to teach english is to be native in english.

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If a foreigner can do the english TOEFL and get a good score to study at any Taiwanese college, why cannot he get a work sponsorship in english teaching job?

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It´s not his fault be born at a non-native english speaking country.

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Whoosh

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No it isn’t, but why be an English teacher then?

Even your English isn’t fluent enough in my opinion. Your grammar is off.

Are you complaining about standards that you don’t seem to meet and wondering why the standards are so high? :thinking: why do you think that the locals should accept your skill set when your writing is clearly non fluent?

If you ride a bicycle at home would you expect to work as an uber driver somewhere else?

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My take is it’s an attempt at quality control combined with giving foreigners jobs locals supposedly can’t do. The rule isn’t perfect, for sure, and is still massively abused.

It’s a workable solution to a problem.

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Even an english native can commit grammar mistakes or doesn´t have the skills to teach english grammar.

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Sure, I just got back from Japan. Saw lots of foreigners working at McDonald’s speaking English, Japanese and maybe something else— Korean or Hindi.

I find this to be more of a problem in Taiwan: unskilled labor that foreigners are not allowed to do— unless they have a spousal type ARC.

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This is true. It’s why for years I have pointed out the difference between state certified teachers and “English teachers in Taiwan.” :taiwan:

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Therefore if have studied English and you have achieved a good score in it doing the TOEFL or any recognized english proficiency test. Why cannot you teach english to locals who are at least starting to learn it legally?

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So let them teach the language they are native in.

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You can if you have student arc jfrv aprc or Taiwan tarc or id card

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That´s kind of discrimination. Just because he comes from non native english speaker country, he is not allowed to teach it legally.

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You are not following, I´m talking about getting a work sponsorship through an english teaching job. Not matter if you are native or not. IMO, It´s the applicant´s expertise what´s matter not his nationality.

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The government would have to set up some kind of competency test. It would probably be better.