Interesting People mailing list archives
more on Unclear on American Campus: What the Foreign Teacher Said
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 19:18:05 -0400
Begin forwarded message: From: Bradley Roberts <brarrr () gmail com> Date: June 27, 2005 6:56:55 PM EDT To: David Farber <dave () farber net> Cc: egor () kobylkin comSubject: Re: [IP] Unclear on American Campus: What the Foreign Teacher Said
So either the universities in question could not afford rejecting the grad students that failed or would have fail TOEFL, or something is wrong with the language tests themselves.
As a current graduate student in engineering, with numerous friends from both native English speaking countries and other-language- countries, I'd say that cheating is rampant on both the GRE and TOEFL in some "foreign" countries. I have no proof other than the near- complete inability to comprehend the English language coupled with GRE verbal scores in the 99th percentile for some students. The native-english speaking students in many research groups get the dubious pleasure of helping correct and clean up manuscripts for publication from their colleagues who are supposedly masters of vocabulary and grammar. I'm not putting this forth as a complaint but as support for the idea that *something* is wrong with the language tests/testing methods themselves. These are good people but some DO lack the necessary oral and written knowledge of the language in which they're instructing.
------------------------------------- You are subscribed as lists-ip () insecure org To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
Current thread:
- more on Unclear on American Campus: What the Foreign Teacher Said David Farber (Jun 27)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- more on Unclear on American Campus: What the Foreign Teacher Said David Farber (Jun 27)
- more on Unclear on American Campus: What the Foreign Teacher Said David Farber (Jun 28)
- more on Unclear on American Campus: What the Foreign Teacher Said David Farber (Jun 28)