How is being multilingual a benefit to language teachers?

You will need to already own the book: Introduction to Language 11th edition By Victoria Fromkin, Robert Rodman, and Nina Hyams, please read chapters 5 and 6.

-Watch: https://canvas.liberty.edu/courses/144389/modules/items/9360624
Read, if needed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet

*One of the interesting aspects of language is that it morphs as it travels through time, space, and society developing different dialects and possibly different languages.

These transformations are readily identifiable to society, and society pre-judges people based on the dialect & language ability that they use. You will answer the question, below, about sociology and provide an in depth multi-paragraph response.

Question: How is being multilingual a benefit to language teachers? Should teachers be at least bilingual? Should teachers introduce dialectal code-switching to their students?

How is being multilingual a benefit to language teachers?
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