Translators note that this sentence is ambiguous:
"English" maybe be the subject she is teaching or may refer to the nationality of Mrs. Smith.
I wonder how ambiguous this really is.
If it were "an English teacher" I would agree that some people might assume you are talking about nationality.
However, with "our English teacher", the chance that the speaker is referring to nationality is very slim.
I think any native English speaker who really intended to refer to Mrs. Smith's nationality, would not word the sentence this way.
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