Who should we blame when other children around the world have better second language skills in English than our childrens' first language skills?
Are you sure about this one? I work in an office of about a 50/50 mix of US workers and English as a second language workers. Most all of us are 20-40 years old and to a person, every single one of us raised in the US write more effectively. In fact, I have to rewrite most of the ESL papers before submitting them to clients due to the vast amount of simple grammatical mistakes. (Most due to verb tense (we work on instead of we worked on), if anyone was wondering.)
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Maybe because I'm still scarred from the Star Wars Prequels. Though I'd pay to watch Jar Jar get killed by one of em.
Ya, but that one mistake is about 20 fewer than if they had typed the reply.
Who should we blame when other children around the world have better second language skills in English than our childrens' first language skills?
Are you sure about this one? I work in an office of about a 50/50 mix of US workers and English as a second language workers. Most all of us are 20-40 years old and to a person, every single one of us raised in the US write more effectively. In fact, I have to rewrite most of the ESL papers before submitting them to clients due to the vast amount of simple grammatical mistakes. (Most due to verb tense (we work on instead of we worked on), if anyone was wondering.)