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You know those guys were Profs cos they knew the stuff. Maybe you are just a bigot who cant survive with a diverse body?
If you can't understand someone to learn the material, you can't understand them to learn the material, nothing bigoted about that.
I certainly couldn't understand a THICK Scottish Brogue as easily as I could understand a THICK Texan Drawl. It happens. Does that make me a bigot, certainly not.
I had the same problem a few years back. Chinese professor, her English was horrible and I am no native speaker, which made it even more difficult. I ended up meeting classmates to study, which was a great way to understand the material and get to know people along the way. Would that be an option for you as well? If not, I would go to the professor's office hours and ask him tons of questions about class until you understand it, but read your textbook first.
You know those guys were Profs cos they knew the stuff. Maybe you are just a bigot who cant survive with a diverse body?
Do you even know what the word "bigot" means? No. Clueless.
I'm not a native speaker myself and I still think they have no business of teaching a class when nobody understands them. Do you think I want to pay thousands of Dollars for someone I can't understand at all
They need English entrance exams. Strict ones. Don't pass it? Go home.
I am a business major and the class I'm taking this semester is Finance. It's a 300 level class. The teacher is asian and to put it bluntly speaks pretty bad english. It almost seems that he is studdering when he speaks and just seems like it's broken english. Some words come out fine when they are just short and to the point. But when he has to speak in sentences it can become quite difficult to understand.
Not wanting to be a smart alack BUT what is going to happen if you are assigned to an international work team where everyone has a different accent?
One of my best classes was a math class (Advanced Algebra) with a Chinese professor with a heavy accent. I sat in the front row and listened carefully. He was also very interesting as he had been one of Stephen Hawkings students and he did side work translating Hawkings books into Chinese. This was at a small podunk state college in rural Colorado, not a University. Sometimes he would show the class pictures of when he goes to Cambridge England to visit Hawking. Dr. Wu was great!
I also had several classes with a professor who was very deaf. He had big hearing aids in both ears. It was not easy to listen to or to talk to him. I took GIS classes and a geophysics class with him. But I dealt with it and got As in all the classes.
Do you even know what the word "bigot" means? No. Clueless.
I'm not a native speaker myself and I still think they have no business of teaching a class when nobody understands them. Do you think I want to pay thousands of Dollars for someone I can't understand at all
They need English entrance exams. Strict ones. Don't pass it? Go home.
I've had profs who werent native speakers. It's a way to learn about the world.
I can understand the concerns students have with professors with thick accents (I'm one of them). It makes a BIG difference in your ability to understand someone who speak clear English VS accented or broken English.
We have no choice but to deal with it since a large majority of professors in certain departments have international professors (those born outside the US) and yes, its still something that needs to be dealt with because college ain't free and I hate paying for something where I have no choice because that's unfair.
Meh, deal with it like everyone else does. Read your textbook and go to office hours and you'll be fine. One thing you are supposed to learn about in college is personal responsibility, i.e. you may not have control over everything in your life but you should maximize your benefit and exert control over all of the parameters that you can.
I hate paying for something where I have no choice because that's unfair.
That kind of sounds like the people saying that it is unfair for them to get a D since they pay college tuition. I agree that tuition is way too high in the US, but you are not entitled to any privileges just because you pay. I am sure the university has a reason to employ a foreign national, usually they even need to have better qualifications than Americans because of their visas.
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