Toro
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I wish they had this law for my university classes.
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Is "flied lice" proper english for fried rice? Be honest now. Yes or no.
Nice...real nice, PP.
I wish they had this law for my university classes.
Show me a federal law that says you cannot teach English if you have a heavy accent, or that you can't speak proper English if you have a heavy accent.
Does this law also apply to people who are English teaching in this country?
Read the article I linked to..... NCLB clearly states this. It pertains to our public school teachers and applies to all 50 States...AZ has chosen to enforce it.
You know...there is a difference between English fluency and having an accent. In case you didn't know.
Shouldn't it be " all students be required to speak ENGLISH".
I wish they had this law for my university classes.
English teachers DO have to be fluent in English. They do need to know the rules. English is a difficult language. For one thing, unlike the other languages, it has three genders instead of two. If I had to correctly apply 100% proper English grammar today - I would have a hard time doing it.
For that matter, all teachers should be fluent in English. My grandson had a teacher who had just stepped off the boat from the Philippians and every kid in the class was failing math because they couldn't understand anything she was say. She was replaced by an Jamaican who was in his last year of internship and really didn't give a damn. He was heading back to Jamaica.
English teachers DO have to be fluent in English. They do need to know the rules. English is a difficult language. For one thing, unlike the other languages, it has three genders instead of two. If I had to correctly apply 100% proper English grammar today - I would have a hard time doing it.
For that matter, all teachers should be fluent in English. My grandson had a teacher who had just stepped off the boat from the Philippians and every kid in the class was failing math because they couldn't understand anything she was say. She was replaced by an Jamaican who was in his last year of internship and really didn't give a damn. He was heading back to Jamaica.
Grammarians are constantly changing the rules, also. Remember when it was wrong to end a sentence with a preposition or begin one with a conjunction? Now those are considered fine [for the most part] and even preferable to begin a sentence with the conjunctions, And or But.
English is considered one of the two top most difficult languages to learn. The first one being Chinese. [or so this was true, a few years ago ]
Notice the dodging of my question....I guess according to some having an accent and improperly pronouncing english words doesn't equate in any way to FLUENCY in english...
The problem I have with the "accent" part of this is how subjective it is. I might have no trouble understanding somebody from Mexico or India or Texas for that matter, but the next guy over can't figure it out or vice versa. Who decides, and what is the objective standard?
The problem I have with the "accent" part of this is how subjective it is. I might have no trouble understanding somebody from Mexico or India or Texas for that matter, but the next guy over can't figure it out or vice versa. Who decides, and what is the objective standard?
Thats my problem with it as well.
The law shouldn't be subject to this extent.
Notice the dodging of my question....I guess according to some having an accent and improperly pronouncing english words doesn't equate in any way to FLUENCY in english...
Does a southern accent count?
How about a Brooklyn or Boston accent?
All butcher the english language....so do some British accents
The problem I have with the "accent" part of this is how subjective it is. I might have no trouble understanding somebody from Mexico or India or Texas for that matter, but the next guy over can't figure it out or vice versa. Who decides, and what is the objective standard?
Thats my problem with it as well.
The law shouldn't be subject to this extent.
But it is...and the discretion is left up to the inspector conducting the audit.
Notice the dodging of my question....I guess according to some having an accent and improperly pronouncing english words doesn't equate in any way to FLUENCY in english...
Does a southern accent count?
How about a Brooklyn or Boston accent?
All butcher the english language....so do some British accents