Comments on: Teacher shortages http://www.omniglot.com/blog/2007/11/30/teacher-shortages/ language-related musings - one language is never enough / dydy un iaith byth yn ddigon Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:01:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.1 by: BG http://www.omniglot.com/blog/2007/11/30/teacher-shortages/#comment-61379 Mon, 03 Dec 2007 05:21:55 +0000 http://www.omniglot.com/blog/2007/11/30/teacher-shortages/#comment-61379 One of my Latin teachers taught ESL at a different school before, and she has an MA in linguistics, I think, and actually had teaching qualifications. But I'm sure a lot of ESL teachers aren't qualified. If teachers got paid more... One of my Latin teachers taught ESL at a different school before, and she has an MA in linguistics, I think, and actually had teaching qualifications. But I’m sure a lot of ESL teachers aren’t qualified. If teachers got paid more…

]]> by: renato figueiredo http://www.omniglot.com/blog/2007/11/30/teacher-shortages/#comment-61313 Sat, 01 Dec 2007 06:36:14 +0000 http://www.omniglot.com/blog/2007/11/30/teacher-shortages/#comment-61313 For me it shows two distinct things, 1 American politics in the world makes it worst. Around the world people hate not american people or its culture, but its forei8gn policy. 2- American people is trying to understand more the arabic culture, through the language, and maybe they will pass to understand better what happened on september 11. American people really don't hate the worls, they only dont understand it as well as they should. About Celtic languages, I think it is an opportunity to rescue the Great Britain history, which wasn't made only by England, but also by Scotland, Wales and Ireland. For me it shows two distinct things, 1 American politics in the world makes it worst. Around the world people hate not american people or its culture, but its forei8gn policy.
2- American people is trying to understand more the arabic culture, through the language, and maybe they will pass to understand better what happened on september 11. American people really don’t hate the worls, they only dont understand it as well as they should.
About Celtic languages, I think it is an opportunity to rescue the Great Britain history, which wasn’t made only by England, but also by Scotland, Wales and Ireland.

]]> by: Joe http://www.omniglot.com/blog/2007/11/30/teacher-shortages/#comment-61303 Fri, 30 Nov 2007 22:12:38 +0000 http://www.omniglot.com/blog/2007/11/30/teacher-shortages/#comment-61303 My university had an undergraduate native speaker on staff to teach Modern Standard Arabic. That's kind of unprecedented, because usually a degree of some sort is usually required to teach a class. However this was also the case when it started offering Hindi. In the case of the Arabic professor, I guess he was qualified, he just went to Harvard to get a Ph.D. in linguistics. But it definitely does reflect the shortage of teachers in certain languages. It's refreshing though, because at least it shows a significant interest, and with so many now learning, this shortage should be alleviated in due time. It also is good news to read about the popularity of Gaelic, Manx, Irish, and Welsh medium courses... so long as the lack of teachers means there's a shortage due to strong demand and not just a lack of teachers! My university had an undergraduate native speaker on staff to teach Modern Standard Arabic. That’s kind of unprecedented, because usually a degree of some sort is usually required to teach a class. However this was also the case when it started offering Hindi. In the case of the Arabic professor, I guess he was qualified, he just went to Harvard to get a Ph.D. in linguistics. But it definitely does reflect the shortage of teachers in certain languages.

It’s refreshing though, because at least it shows a significant interest, and with so many now learning, this shortage should be alleviated in due time. It also is good news to read about the popularity of Gaelic, Manx, Irish, and Welsh medium courses… so long as the lack of teachers means there’s a shortage due to strong demand and not just a lack of teachers!

]]>