Question:
Yup eventually they will learn it. The question is does it cost
us more to wait, or to provide ESL instruction? Those in the
system have decided that ESL is necessary to fullfil their
mandate
Answer:
I think I can make it a bit stronger than that: when
I was in university, we were having real problems
with chineese students failing. My head of house had been
sent to Canada when he was still in high school to get a
head start on English.
His family was from a nominally english-speaking city
(Hong Kong), but he had a low opinion of his old
school's ability to teach english. (This is the opposite
of Singapore, by the way!)
I was used as a guinea-pig for the TOEFL (ESL) tests by
the faculty, as I spoke a rather good brand of english,
and they wanted to get an idea of what levels of
proficiency corresponded to what test scores. The
results were later announced, and the faculty and
the university subsequently raised their admission
requirements.
I therefor suggest that the University of Windsor was of
the opinion that english (in this case, as a second language)
was a prerequisite for entrance. And they made that opinion
known in no uncertain terms to the high schools!
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