Тарнопольський, Олег Борисович2018-02-092018-02-092000http://ir.duan.edu.ua/handle/123456789/1213This article draws a distinction between teaching English as a second and foreign language, demonstrating that in the latter case, teaching should be modified towards greater emphasis on formal grammar instruc- tion and on developing learners’ interlingual and intercultural awareness. Advantages of EFL teachers who are non-native speakers of English are shown for some EFL teaching conditions. The advantages are tied to the fact that such EFL teachers are those who, as a rule, share their students’ mother tongue and culture and are, therefore, better prepared for coping with the specific problems that originate from incompatibilities or differ- ences in target and native languages and/or cultures. Some ways of elimi- nating such teachers’ natural disadvantages as non-native speakers of English are advocated.