Spanish and Swedish Pre-Service Teachers’ ELF User Attitudes Towards English and its Users

English in Spain: Education, attitudes and native‐speakerism

“…Although these are gradually changing, they do so at a rather slow pace, and even pre‐service teachers of English are subject to native‐speakerist ideologies and discourses that ‒ combined with their own resistance to incorporate new models of teaching ‒ position them rather far away from becoming agents of change in their future teaching practice (Calvet‐Terré & Llurda, 2023). A comparative study of ELF versus ‘native‐speaker’ orientations of Spanish and Swedish pre‐service teachers pointed to a more pro‐‘NS’ orientation of Spaniards, and consequently a more pro‐ELF orientation of the Swedish participants (Jeong et al., 2022). We will dwell here with two examples that illustrate how the Spanish context still privileges so‐called ‘native speakers’, who are endowed with an aura of magnificence, and by the same token it projects a bias against those who are perceived as ‘non‐native’ speakers.…”