A discussion of the impact of parental demand on the terms of employment of imported native-speaking and local non-native-speaking teachers in private language schools.

As more and more parents realize the importanceof learning the language at an earlystage, the teaching of English as a Foreign Language(EFL) to young learners has become alucrative adventure for Taiwanese entrepreneurs.Taiwanese students and parents alikerepresent a stable and growing market, at leastfor now. The demand for both Native Speaking(NS) and Non-Native Speaking (NNS) teachersis also on the rise and can certainly be attributedto the flourishing EFL industry in Taiwan.However, there is a distinctively huge differencein the pay and reward policies and practicesfor the two kinds of teacher. This articletouches on relatively sensitive issues concerningNS/NNS as EFL teachers and as members ofstaff.