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To: epicure who wrote (104849)2/24/2009 3:00:59 PM
From: Travis_Bickle  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 542836
 
"The major problem with our Hispanic students is that they are illiterate in both their spoken language (Spanish) and English."

Yup, Spanish was my first language but I caught a lot of flack when I enrolled in a junior-level Spanish course in college, ended up dropping the class ... end result is I speak Spanish on a level with someone who was not educated past the eighth grade, no way I could practice law in Spanish.

/though fortunately I am literate in English
//getting the highest possible score on the AP English exam is the best revenge



To: epicure who wrote (104849)2/24/2009 3:44:27 PM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 542836
 
The idea of Spanish speakers studying Spanish is about as "redundant" as English speakers taking AP English.

My impression is that it's not an issue of Spanish speakers studying Spanish but fluent Spanish speakers taking AP Spanish. I think it's great if they take a grammar course or a literature course or build vocabulary to beef up their Spanish skills. But what about that is AP? What about that in English would be AP?


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