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Posted Dec 8, 2011 12:04 UTC (Thu) by dskoll (subscriber, #1630)
In reply to: Press releases by ekj
Parent article: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 released

Consider the case of the foreign student.

I was talking about high school, not university. I agree that at the university level, teachers should take into account the student's first language and the subject matter.

When I was in university, I had a friend from Vietnam who was hired as a proofreader for a local TV magazine because his meticulousness in learning English made his English skills better than most native-born Canadians. So we can't generalize about foreign students. :)


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Posted Dec 9, 2011 14:47 UTC (Fri) by jubal (subscriber, #67202) [Link]

Ah, but that's typical for the languages you've learned to *read* first; I don't make many spelling errors, for example, but my pronunciation is frequently atrocious (and my command of the English grammar – the tenses especially – is at best shaky).

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