ABSTRACT
This chapter presents various shifts needed in the educational activities of the foreign language teacher. It discusses some questions surrounding nativeness, the possible exclusion of "native speakers", the target language, learning objectives, teaching materials and educational aims. Various learning objectives are implied by some points related to language norm selection. While the selection of language norms is context-dependent insofar as they relate to the macro and micro parameters of the teaching/learning context, teachers should prepare students for the communicative challenges resulting from encounters with culturally different people who share social context to greater or lesser degrees. A major shift is needed away from the overarching system of control based on nativeness in which the native-speaker model is rooted, with its attitudes towards language correction, and accompanying preferences for fixedness in language and culture originating in established varieties.
