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all want some recognition of their professional status and skills, and a job. The former 26 is obviously important on a personal level, but it is 27 if you are to have any chance of finding work. Ten years ago, the 28 was very different. In virtually every developing country, and in many developed countries as well, being a native English speaker was enough to 29 as an English teacher. Now employers will only look at teachers who have the knowledge, the skills and attitudes to teach English 30 The result of this has been to raise non-native English teachers to the same status as their 31 --something they have always deserved but seldom enjoyed. Non-natives are now happy—linguistic discrimination is a thing of the past. An ongoing research project, funded by the University of Cambridge, asked a sample of teachers, teacher educators and employers in more than 40 countries a question: whether they regard the native andnon-native speakers distinction as being at all important. "No" was the answer. They would 32 who the teachers were and where they came from. As long as 33 could teach and had the required level of English, it didnt matter. Thus, a new form. of discrimination--this time justified because it 34 the unqualified--liberated the linguistically oppressed. But the Cambridge project did more than just that: it 35 that the needs of native and non-native teachers are extremely similar. 26._________