If you're going to b**** about the english capabilities of professors and TAs, wait until you hear about how atrocious the students are in contrast!
How is this a racist thread. Is expecting a person with a PHD to be able to speak understandable english too much?
The thing is college students are paying customers. They can choose to waste their parents money all they want, as long as they don't disrupt the class or interfere with other students it's all good. Professors and TAs are supposed to provide a service and communication is a vital part of that service.
Unsure as to why you would assume ill will on my part? Whether or not you have debt on your balance sheet means absolutely nothing to me. You are just a poster on clutchfans.net, and nothing more. No offense was taken by me. The world cannot be full of driven, successful men and women, or we would all murder each other. :grin: Certainly the lions need a healthy herd of antelope on the savannah.
Addendum: I stand by my initial prognostication, regardless of your financial liabilities. Kindly return in ten years time, and you will laugh at your youthful naivete - guaranteed.
Nice attempt to again classify and patronize in order to assure yourself that everyone indeed thinks and feels as you do. In 10 years time you will look back at this and fall into a crevice of fear and loathing that encompasses the manboobs of John Ameachi sevenfold.
Interesting proposition. We have people speak perfect English and yet I still didn't understand what they were talking about on topics of college subjects. Should we make it a law that people must speak English and know what they talk about in order to teach? Oh, well, are you willing to pay more tuition for them b/c the smart ones are getting paid big bucks elsewhere?
I would love to just study what I wanted and be as lazy as possible. I am not a materialistic person, I get by just fine without fancy things. The problem is that ever since I had my kid I realized how much money it takes to raise her right and give her all the things I want to give her. So I'm going to quit engineering, get into finance, be a go-getter until I have enough to be lazy again.
I am not saying they have to be perfect at english. I am far from that myself, but at least they have to be fluent or understandable. Its not about the accent.
Do the tests cover material from the textbook? If so, are the textbooks written in English? If so, then you should be able to learn the material on your own.
to me. . .this is the problem. Not just foreign Professors but Professors in general They seems to not want to be there don't give a d*mn if you 'get it or not' and generally seem annoyed when you show up at their 'office hours' Rocket River
So you pay someone . . .and then don't expect them to do their job because it is in the textbook???? If it is all about learning from a Textbook Why have Professors/TAs at all? Rocket River
Or you could have just decided to not have children and done what you wanted. When I'm 35 hopefully I'll have a cat.
Quality and fluency of speech does not always equate to intrinsic quality of speech. I've had some native English speaking professors who could not impart the material to the student in an easy to understand manner, whereas I've had some professors with relatively poor English, make the subject matter I'm learning very easy to comprehend and understand. I've always felt the basis of how good a professor is should be dependent on how easily his/her students can learn the material. A professor should be able to take a tough subject matter and make it simple. Most professors can't do this properly from my experience.
Yes, it is. The fact of the matter is once you reach a certain age it's hard to learn a new language. Go try to learn Chinese now at your age. Good luck.
They are doing their job. If a student is unable to adapt, then he needs to find alternative methods of learning (independent study, study groups, whatever). For a lot of classes, Professors/TA's aren't necessary. In my college experience, there was only one teacher whose class I felt was worth attending, and that's b/c he went above and beyond what the textbooks covered.
I have had a few Chinese professors some of them around the same age and who have been in this country the same amount of time. Some of them speak fine and are easy to understand. Others you have no idea what they are saying. You can kind of tell when someone has put some effort into it and they actually try to teach.
