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From: Dennis.Mcclain-Furmanski.@f42.n275.z1.fidonet.org (Dennis Mcclain-Furmanski )
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Subject: Re: First Language
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Date: 17 Jun 91 15:39:20 GMT
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[This is from the Silent Talk Conference]

I don't intend to disagree with anything in your post to Tim regarding
education and the deaf, but I have something just FYI concerning teaching
languages.

The U.S. government teaches english at many embassies around the world. They
recruit teachers who have *no* knowledge of the language of the country they're
going to. It is so the students are forced to deal with the teacher in english
100%. A good friend of mine was scheduled to teach in Peru but recieved his
associate professorship at Purdue. In electronic drafting of all things. Talk
about NOT knowing the language - he talked in CAD-CAM.

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