Native-speakerism is the belief that native-speaker teachers embody Western cultural ideals in both English language and teaching methodology.
[5] This period saw the implementation of standards in grammar and vocabulary, which is the foundation of the favouritism given towards native-speakers in the second language learning and teaching environment.
The native-speakerism ideology is described as "a distorted world view" by Holliday,[9] and by labelling teachers as native or non-native it falsely positions them as inferior or superior in their profession.
This results in employment discrimination and divisiveness in the second-language acquisition industry,[9] which favours young White native speakers from English speaking countries.
Meanwhile, a large body of work in fields such as English as a lingua franca has shown that language use outside the classroom has moved away from dependence on native speaker norms.