[etni] Fw: re: Dream or nightmare?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Nira Artzy - arnira@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Dream or nightmare?

Most of our students already learn only globlish in School anyway and not 
much else. Why? Because about 1,000-1,500 word families are needed to pass 
Modules A-D plus the 4 points Oral Bagrut exam. If they fail Module E, their 
average will still let them have a passing 4 pts Bagrut grade. Since most 
Israeli students are 3-4 pts students, they don't really know enough English 
(at least 3,000 - 4,000 word families) to read Mark Twain or even J. K. 
Rowling just for fun. Nor would they want to...

Nira


Bambi Aharon wrote:
>Have any of us read Shakespeare or Twain lately?
>How about The Faery Queen or Beowulf?
>Language evolves - and I admire the initiative of the
>advertising executives who gave us 'lite' and 'lo' and
>only wish the rest of us could bring English into the
>land of phonetics.  Twould be brillig, would it not?
>We teach what we know, and since I presume most
>of us do not know globlish, we won't teach it.
>Would that I could.
>Latin club, anyone?

Trudy wrote:
>So what should we do?  Teach English or globlish?

Steve wrote:
> The following article is a must for all English teachers.
> A poll on what we think about this would be very interesting.
> http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/829236.html
>
> (*etni note - if you can't get into the haaretz link, go to -
> http://www.etni.org/news/globishtrotters.htm  )



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