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TESOL educators encounter other misunderstandings about the body of knowledge and skills needed to work successfully with ELLs, which affect our professional treatment as well. A common myth in the public arena is that to teach a language one need only be a speaker of it. This myth implies that educators do not need any formal preparation to teach English. One basic example to dispel this myth is that in any ESL/EFL/ELT course the teacher needs to be able to explain the differences in form, meaning, and use of regular past tense and past progressive verbs. Professional preparation is required to understand the forms and the differences, present the forms, develop lessons on the forms with activities and materials, and assess learning of them. This is only one micro example of many that illustrates the body of knowledge and skill that TESOL educators need to develop to teach ESL/EFL/ELT, and, therefore, professionals with this knowledge should be treated professionally.