Third, local multilingual teachers with intercultural
competence in the cultures of ASEAN can also offer cultural
insights for their students. It has traditionally been assumed that
a great advantage of the native speaker teacher is that s/he can
offer students a guide to the target culture (cf. Moussu & Lurda,
2008). But, as argued above, the cultures which the learners need
to know are the cultures found within ASEAN. Thus the ASEAN
English language teacher needs intercultural competence in
regional cultures, coupled with the ability to transmit or instil
this intercultural competence in the learners.