Compared to non-native teachers of English, not only do native speakers from the West have a greater number of job opportunities open to them, but they also have a greater advantage in teaching positions. Thus, the monolingual and native speaker tenets create strong stereotypes. This can be seen through the employment section in the press in Thailand. Local employers of language schools are likely to view any native speaker of English as more qualified than local non-native speakers in terms of academic competence and professional performance (Methitham, 2009). Hence, a job applicant who is thought of as a native speaker from the West is very likely to be more successful in getting a better-paying teaching position and fringe benefits in the country, even if this speaker has little or no pedagogical training (Jenkins, 2006), and may not even speak a dominant standard variety or a so-called ―variety of English preferably spoken by welleducated Anglo speakers.‖