How do English native speakers call their teachers or lectures in the class?

[tulipflower]

How do English native speakers call their teachers or lectures in the class?

 

[GoesStation]

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See above. There is no universal convention.

 

[emsr2d2]

[STRIKE]How[/STRIKE] What do English native speakers call their teachers or lecturers in [STRIKE]the[/STRIKE] class?

I assume you're asking how we address them. It depends on the school, the age of the students, the formality demanded by the faculty and probably other factors.

At my first and middle schools (age 4-12), all teachers were "Miss/Mrs/Mr + surname".
At my secondary school (age 12-16), the same was true with the exception of one teacher who insisted on "Sir" and another who insisted on our using his first name only.
At my sixth form college (age 16-18), almost all the tutors/teachers expected "Miss/Mrs/Mr + surname". My music teacher was happy to be called "Adrian" and one of our English Lit teachers made us call him "Prof" for the first term, then told us it was just a joke he played on all his students and from then on we were to call him by his first name (which I've now forgotten).

One of my friends went to a very strict Catholic school from the age of 8 to the age of 16, and was taught by nuns. She had to address them as "Sister + name" (some didn't make sense - there was a "Sister Kevin"!)
The son of someone I know goes to a Montessori school and all the teachers go by their first name only.

 

[Tdol]

At university, it was mostly first names for me.

 

[tulipflower]

Thank you. Yes, I meant the way they address their teachers in university and school.

 

[tulipflower]

In my country, Iran, my students at university usually call me 'master' and even 'professor' and young learners usually call me 'teacher + surname'. They usually address lecturers and teachers this way.

 

[Rover_KE]

How do you want to be addressed? Don't you tell them how?

 

[tulipflower]

No, I haven't told them. I always wondered what they should call me in an English class. In Iran they never use first name to address a teacher or a lecturer. In schools, they usually say 'teacher' and I though it's not a proper way to call their English teacher. Now I found that Ms, Mrs and Mr are the most common ways to call teachers. I also doubt about 'master' that the university students use to address their lectures.

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

It's also worth knowing that, in general (both in and out of school), Americans are more prone to use first names than the British are. For example, my stepdaughter's first name is Caitie, and her seventh grade students call her Miss Caitie.

(That's unusual, but it's a good illustration of Ems' remark that there are no rules about what we call teachers and professors.)

 

[Tarheel]

No, I haven't told them. I always wondered what they should call me in an English class. In Iran they never use first names to address a teacher or a lecturer. In schools, they usually say 'teacher' and I thought it's not a proper way to address their English teacher. Now I found that Ms, Mrs and Mr are the most common ways to address teachers. I also doubt about 'master' that the university students use to address their lecturers.

Simply tell them how you want them to address you. It's as simple as that.

 

[PeterCW]

No, I haven't told them. I always wondered what they should call me in an English class. In Iran they never use first name to address a teacher or a lecturer. In schools, they usually say 'teacher' and I though it's not a proper way to call their English teacher. Now I found that Ms, Mrs and Mr are the most common ways to call teachers. I also doubt about 'master' that the university students use to address their lectures.

When I learned foreign languages at school the teacher always started the very first lesson by telling us how he should be addressed in that language. So it would have been monsieur for French and magister for Latin. English has no middle ground between using title + name and the more formal and deferential "sir" that would match, say, the French use of monsieur.

 

[emsr2d2]

One of my friends is a primary school teacher and, as is often the case in British schools at the moment, she has been asked to teach French to 8- and 10-year-olds, despite the fact that she speaks no French at all! However, she did remember that in her French classes at school (the contents of which she has clearly forgotten), the teacher was called "Madame + surname". She decided she didn't want to use her real surname, and she's single, so she has told her pupils to call her "Mademoiselle Crinoline".