Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!pdn!reggie
From: reggie@pdn.UUCP (George W. Leach)
Newsgroups: comp.edu
Subject: Re: Student preparedness
Message-ID: <5353@pdn.UUCP>
Date: 13 Jan 89 12:09:30 GMT
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Reply-To: reggie@pdn.UUCP (George W. Leach)
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In article <3062@cbnews.ATT.COM> lvc@cbnews.ATT.COM (Lawrence V. Cipriani) writes:

>It is a state law in Ohio that teachers at a state university have to pass
>an English competency exam of some sort.  This law came into being when a
>relative of a legislator complained that he or she could not understand their
>instructor.  The exam might be limited to only non-citizens, I don't remember.
>That hardly seems fair to me, I've had American instructors with lousy English.

    I recall the front page article in the Wall St Journal concerning the
students at Ohio State complaining of this.  I'm glad to see that something
was done about it.  But is it working?


BTW:  I agree that there are many natives with lousy English (me included
according to my wife who minored in English).  However, at least we can
verbally understand them, right?



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