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| Given that any dialect of Chinese differs tremendously from English, both in grammar and written form, learning English correctly is of major importance at St. Therese. It has been my task to teach proper English to each sixth grade I've had. I can't stress how important learning good, exact English is. Unfortunately, while students seem capable of doing hundreds of grammar exercises well, they often seem to forget much of what they've learned when writing normal English on their own. Ask them to write a paragraph or two, and many of them seem to have never learned the rules of grammar or punctuation that they just did near-perfect exercises with. It also doesn't help that the Internet has dumbed-down people through its chat rooms; students have gotten so used to writing in the non-English of chat rooms that it carries over into some of their writing. I'm wondering when students will learn to stop writing in the shorthand, caveman English that they learn in chat rooms, and start writing English properly. It even shows up in the e-mails they write to me, which I wish it wouldn't. I think I have yet to receive an e-mail from any student that has been written in proper English. |
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