The feedback I got from my students was that they liked the ability to be able to ask questions about grammar in their mother tongue and also to put the grammar into the context of their own language. A English native speaker who is not a fluent speaker of this language would not be able to do this.
This is one of the precise problems which I have with dual-teacher systems. Once a student gets to intermediate level, they know more than enough English to have the finer points of grammar explained to them in English. Once students start trying to translate grammar, they're onto a loser. Putting the present perfect continuous tense into the context of Polish is just not possible (Polish has neither continuous nor perfect tenses), so why bother trying?
Translating from Polish into English is a far more difficult than just speaking English, which is why good translators earn far more than good teachers. To speak good English students need to be thinking in English: if they remember grammatical rules in Polish, they won’t be thinking in only English!
Harry, do u really feel that Polish teacher aren't intelligible?
You misread me. I said that I’ve met some Polish teachers of EFL who speak such bad English that I can’t understand them. But then I’ve met some native-speaker teachers who speak English with such thick accents that I can’t understand them either.
ILS Opole are offering from 1750,- to 1.850 zls net per calendar month for 24 contact hrs per week - thats a bit cheeky isnt it?
Add the accommodation and it’s 2500zl per month, not that bad for rip-off schools. IH in Bielsko-Biala are offering 2150zl gross per month with no accommodation for 23 real hours. ELS-Bell in Gdansk are offering the same pay with no accommodation for 25 real hours. ELS-Bell in Warsaw offer 2,500zl per month with no accommodation and the director of the school claims that that much money is enough to “get a cleaner [for your apartment] and really enjoy yourself.”!