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[soitsenglishweteach]

I have to try and be breif here. I noticed that the children who go on to Uni and teh young men ( can't say anything about teh ladies) haven't got a clue after all that they were supposed to have studied.

My suggestion is that English teachers in schools be partnered with native ( not lebenese or other shamyites ) teachers who have been qualified and teaching for some time. they should run this program from the earliest grade teaching eanglish and then after some years hopefully those students reaching the twighlighters in KFUPM and elsewhere will be of a better standard and also the saudi teachers themselves. What do you guys think
Has it got legs as a proposal?

Would anyone think of doing it
( yes abba you can dictate your terms) if the money was right or would you have to see an overhaul of the texts and structure of english in schools and colleges?


Anyone else with a forward thinking solution to the dismal array of students who were cheated out of seven years worth of English by a system that still isn't working.

yeah yeah yeah -

there was a prince who said that, was it one who is here?

[Stephen Jones]

Nice of you to spare some time from your main occupation (being unpleasant) and to come up with a sensible suggestion.

The problem with sensible suggestions in Saudi is that they are, well, sensible, and this goes against the grain.

It is not sensible to spend a fortune teaching English to National Guardsmen, when they gave up trying to teach them to tie their shoelaces a long time ago, or to teach English to Navy midshipmen (and expel them from the navy when they fail the exams), or to the lowest ranks of the airforce. It is arrant stupidity to have English as the medium of the community colleges and to demand English from plumbers and electricians.

Indeed if all those pointless jobs were freed up, there would be enough teachers around to fulfill your excellent plan.

Incidentally, guess what is the lowest paid teaching job in Saudi? Yep, teaching English teachers at the university or teacher training colleges. Talk about getting your priorities wrong.

[Abba]