Faked placement might have their logic

[B. Shir]

100% agree with V. Bell. During my 10 years of teaching the
Russian Language, I have had many students with the same
problem.
I will be happy to continue off-list, for what I am going
to suggest might sound like "kramola".
Liza Ginzburg
Senior Instructor

--- "atacama at global.co.za" <atacama at GLOBAL.CO.ZA> wrote:

> Trying to enter at the elementary level might have a very
> good reason,
> besides trying to obtain high marks with little effort.
> 
> Take my case: I am what would be called a
> Russian-language
> heritage speaker, born of Russian/German parents in
> Berlin,
> with home language Russian & some German, and then
> entered
> the British school/university system.
> 
> Although my spoken Russian and German were excellent, I
> didn't
> really understand grammar at all.   I was pushed into the
> higher
> classes, eventually obtained a degree - but I am still
> extremely
> sorry that I never had elementary classes where simple
> grammar is
> taught..... I now do high level translations, but don't
> really
> understand grammar.
> 
> I also spoke Spanish, but had the good fortune to
> re-start it at
> elementary level in London thus obtaining a good
> foundation of grammar,
> which I really think is essential in any language.
> 
> I would suggest for students in such a position to be
> give
> crash courses in basic language before they proceed to
> higher
> levels.
> 
> V. Bell
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Original Message:
> -----------------
> From: Prof Steven P Hill s-hill4 at UIUC.EDU
> Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2006 04:28:42 -0600
> To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU
> Subject: [SEELANGS] "Faked" placement scores from native
> speakers
> 
> 

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