June 7, 2011

No exit

This is from a final paper, submitted by a graduating student at a Teacher Training College.

General information about teaching and learning of KLSS is the technique of teaching and learning not enough and perfect for both teachers and students. Moreover, most of the teachers are old or senior

It passed, but how? Should it fail because it is indecipherable? Should it pass because the next passage is perfect?

In order for students to communicate well they need to have to expand their Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency level (CALP). CALP contains the genres of power that leads to success.

Pass/fail is not that simple. Nor is true or false. Are these statements true or false?

T/F  1. The text is inscrutable/perfect to everyone because someone was paid 2,000 baht to write it.
T/F  2. The paper passed because the teacher wrote it.
T/F  3. Even if the student wrote it, they’d have to pay 2,000 baht to get it checked.
T/F  4. The students are taught gobbledygook for three years so that nobody knows better.

Look for the answers in a future blog. Or just read past ones to figure it out. Got any CALP? If it contains the genres of power that lead to success, where can we get it?