This was printed in a booklet for TAs at MIT.

[chuckywang]

This is part of the section entitled "Teachers from Other Countries."

Level. A second main problem affects all teachers from abroad, even the ones from Oxford. You tend to misjudge the level of American students, whose prior education and background is not the same as yours; the subjects they have studied may be the same, but they are taught differently. In particular, though American students have many strengths:

* they do not have the verbal facility or literary background of a typical English student;

* they do not have the same familiarity with abstract concepts and abstract thinking of the typical European student;

* they do not have the self-discipline for sustained effort on an assigned task of the typical Japanese or Chinese student.

Over and over one sees teachers trained elsewhere presenting material at too advanced or abstract a level, failing to supply examples and applications, or assuming work has been done just because it has been assigned.

Not only is it an unfair generalization of American students (put out by an American university, no less), but it is also kinda ironic that it would contain two grammatical mistakes.

 

[thepd7]

If you read it on the internet....

Please finish that statement.

 

[Anubis]

i did not see the grammaticial mistakes


woot amerika

 

[darkxshade]

Originally posted by: chuckywang
Not only is it an unfair generalization of American students (put out by an American university, no less), but it is also kinda ironic that it would contain two grammatical mistakes.

Maybe an American wrote it.

 

[thirtythree]

Originally posted by: thepd7
If you read it on the internet....

Please finish that statement.

Can't find it on the internet. Maybe he or a friend has the actual booklet.

EDIT: Ah, see post below me.

 

[Epic Fail]

out of context, the whole book was a satire.

http://web.mit.edu/tll/teachin...erials/torch-hose.html

 

[Tiamat]

Originally posted by: yamadakun
out of context, the whole book was a satire.

http://web.mit.edu/tll/teachin...erials/torch-hose.html

thx

 

[FoBoT]

what


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[chuckywang]

Originally posted by: thepd7
If you read it on the internet....

Please finish that statement.

I am a LIFER here. Do you really think, even after all this time, I'd just make stuff up in my posts?

 

[oogabooga]

Originally posted by: chuckywang

Originally posted by: thepd7
If you read it on the internet....

Please finish that statement.

I am a LIFER here. Do you really think, even after all this time, I'd just make stuff up in my posts?

Doesn't lifer just mean that you've had at least 10,000 posts with made up stuff in it?

 

[Steve]

what

 

[Mr Pickles]

Sounds about right...

 

[jjones]

Originally posted by: oogabooga

Originally posted by: chuckywang

Originally posted by: thepd7
If you read it on the internet....

Please finish that statement.

I am a LIFER here. Do you really think, even after all this time, I'd just make stuff up in my posts?

Doesn't lifer just mean that you've had at least 10,000 posts with made up stuff in it?

lol