Response to Pennycook

Pennycook's article provided interesting views and ideas on critical approaches to TESOL, which include critical domain, transformative pedagogy, and self-reflective stance on critical theory.  Each is important in understanding how to approach the issue of teaching English to speakers of other languages when in the classroom.  I mostly enjoyed what he had to say about the different power relationships that one encounters in TESOL.  One quote particularly caught my attention was when he states that some researchers feel there is a "need to address the inequalities in the relationship between the constructs of the native speaker and the nonnative speaker" (333).  I found this interesting because got me to think about this relationship that we hear about often of the native speaker (NS) and the nonnative speaker (NNS).  There do seem to be quite a bit of inequalities--in placement and such--but to what extent can we help our students?  Is there even a right way?