Not being sufficiently fluent in the language of instruction to do the course work is not really considered a mitigating circumstance, in most countries. It is at my school, a large public university in a major city with a huge and diverse immigrant population. Students are accepted to the school no matter what their writing abilities and essentially allowed to sink or swim in their coursework. Some professors consider ESL a mitigating circumstance, and some don't. I've had students at essentially the same level of english proficiency bring me both B- and F papers, depending on the instructor and the paper. Undergraduates who work in the school's free tutoring center (like myself) are the ones who work with non-english-speaking students to make sure they pass the test that our school requires them to pass in order to graduate. It is, to say the least, not an ideal system. But I meet lots of interesting people.
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Re: C- if there was some obvious issue like being a foreign student from a non-English speaking nati
Date: 2009-02-19 02:32 pm (UTC)It is at my school, a large public university in a major city with a huge and diverse immigrant population. Students are accepted to the school no matter what their writing abilities and essentially allowed to sink or swim in their coursework. Some professors consider ESL a mitigating circumstance, and some don't. I've had students at essentially the same level of english proficiency bring me both B- and F papers, depending on the instructor and the paper.
Undergraduates who work in the school's free tutoring center (like myself) are the ones who work with non-english-speaking students to make sure they pass the test that our school requires them to pass in order to graduate.
It is, to say the least, not an ideal system. But I meet lots of interesting people.