I have my FYComposition students write about our college's Common Blook on a blog. Those posts are supposed to be about any aspect of what they've read in that book, The Grace of Silence this year.
Here's one student's post from a couple of weeks ago: he's older, maybe 45, from Ethiopia, and was certain to tell me what was wrong with President Obama and why he voted for Romney. The irony: he has now dropped the class because of my "grading system," even though he has had trouble following directions all semester (writing essays on topics he wants to write about instead of the assignments I've given; giving me the impression that he'd followed my advice to sign up for an ESOL Directed Grammar Study course but not doing it; posting about all kinds of things, not the common book, as you see below):
Keepup
Here's one student's post from a couple of weeks ago: he's older, maybe 45, from Ethiopia, and was certain to tell me what was wrong with President Obama and why he voted for Romney. The irony: he has now dropped the class because of my "grading system," even though he has had trouble following directions all semester (writing essays on topics he wants to write about instead of the assignments I've given; giving me the impression that he'd followed my advice to sign up for an ESOL Directed Grammar Study course but not doing it; posting about all kinds of things, not the common book, as you see below):
Keepup
Learning English language is my goal at Century College. The language is harder than any three other languages I speak, write, and read. However, I believe English language is the most important language too. Because, it is the 3rd most popular and modernize language that many people uses today to communicate to each other. You the native speaker you should proud of this, speaking the language. Please, develop it, share it and keep it.
Some resreachs has been done. For example, the Saint Ignatius high school of OH, showes, The World's Most Widely Spoken Languages
"The Summer Institute for Linguistics (SIL) Ethnologue Survey (1999) lists the following as the top languages by population:
(number of native speakers in parentheses)
(number of native speakers in parentheses)
- Chinese* (937,132,000)
- Spanish (332,000,000)
- English (322,000,000)
- Bengali (189,000,000)
- Hindi/Urdu (182,000,000)
- Arabic* (174,950,000)
- Portuguese (170,000,000)
- Russian (170,000,000)
- Japanese (125,000,000)
- German (98,000,000)
- French* (79,572,000)."
And please help us to learn better and be inpatient with us too. I appreciate that.
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