tailieunhanh - Proficiency Examinations – who needs them?

Tham khảo tài liệu 'proficiency examinations – who needs them?', ngoại ngữ, kỹ năng đọc tiếng anh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | Proficiency Examinations - who needs them I m so frustrated These were the words of a friend of mine the other day and international students on an F-1 visa studying at this university. Although he is a junior in electrical engineering and doing well in his engineering courses he has again failed the English Department s proficiency examination in composition. And he is not the only one. I know several international students can pass differential calculus with no-problem but cannot seem to get out of freshman English you must be able to write a 500-word essay in fifty minutes with no more than two major errors and five minor errors. While most native speakers of English manage to do this after two or three semesters of freshman English non-native speakers have much more difficult time. The reason for this is obvious. Non-native speakers needs to spend some of their fifty minutes looking up new vocabulary words carefully going over grammar constructions and looking everywhere for a missing third-person S. While international students may have some more original ideas than native speakers they may fail for superficial grammatical reasons. This seems very unfair to me. It seems clear that international students should be considered special cases and therefore the composition proficiency requirements as now stated should not apply. The case of international students at an American university is indeed special. First most international students are using English as their second language. When it comes to writing a composition international students using a second language require more time than native speakers. International students must spend part .