"If students had been prepared appropriately, if the gate-keeping efforts had kept students out of her course until they were more native like..."
Why are students always to blame? Ha.
"...how this very unfamiliarity with this course content may be constraining students linguistic processes..."
I had just written on that topic when I read this article. We cannot treat non-native students as native students. And this is not just about the language gap and their inability to reflect their "intelligence" into the English language. No. This is about cultural and contextual gaps. It has to be accounted for. I have had students in PEGS GWIE that have failed their papers because they are international students and they were asked to write about how the value of American marriage has changed for them since childhood. How could they possibly have an opinion on this without researching the topic? The prompt specifically asked for no outside sources with only personal explanations. It is just not logical to not account for this gap.
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