The fifth reason why the local multilingual is the preferred
English language teacher is that an obvious goal of language
learning is to develop multilinguals. Multilinguals deserve
respect and the multilingual teacher can instil this sense of respect
for multilinguals and multilingualism in the classroom. It is
important to establish a classroom philosophy through which
the English language learner is not judged against native
speaker norms and thus constantly evaluated as falling short of
the mark, but is judged as a language learner who is developing
multilingual proficiency. The students are becoming linguistically
sophisticated multilinguals. They are not failed or deficient
native speakers.