UK, immigration, language


	UK, immigration, language

montypaul

7-20-2008 3:18 AM

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uk, immigration, langiage, students, communication, writing, standards

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Falling standards of literacy amongst students, the idea of a messy lingua franca for the UK

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/40287df6-4f90-41a3-968c-79b71c1c0dfa/73C93E53-C7CE-411C-8172-2762C09522BA/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/jul/20/britishidentity?gusrc=rss&feed=uknews" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/jul/20/britishidentity?gusrc=rss&feed=uknews" style="font-size: 11px;">www.guardian.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/jul/20/britishidentity?gusrc=rss&feed=uknews"><P>This seems to me misguided. We can accept that a non-native speaker may make mistakes, but it would be foolish to try to incorporate all the different types of mistakes of all nationalities to create a new lingua franca. Most foreign learners don't want that either. When they hand over their money to the language teacher, they don't want to be taught Spanish English or European English or World English: they want to learn real English, even if they know they'll fall short of perfection.<BR /><STRONG>Michael Bulley</STRONG><BR />Chalon-sur-Saône, France</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/jul/20/britishidentity?gusrc=rss&feed=uknews"><P>I work in higher education and am appalled at the low standards of literacy among our undergraduates, to the point where I simply cannot tell what they are trying to communicate. It is not simply spelling, it is also sentence construction and punctuation, which make all the difference when it comes to conveying a message.<BR /><STRONG>Walter Cairns</STRONG><BR />Manchester</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/73C93E53-C7CE-411C-8172-2762C09522BA/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>