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[quote=GAFFER,361648]My partner is currently in her second year studying for a degree at a Guangzhou college. The degree is an intensive part time, two nights, all day Sunday and occasional Saturdays course designed for students in full time employment. I have to admire her determination and hard work with this workload. Like many courses there is a mandatory English element. At the beginning of the term students were informed that the college could not provide teachers for two subjects, one of them being English, but that material would be provided for them online. There would also be no partial refund of fees [mood4]. Bearing in mind that many students had little spare time or access to computers they were not pleased. A minor student classroom revolt persuaded the college to relent and provide one teacher, but not for English. My partner, being one of the more proficient in English and the only one with a laowai English “husband” is not surprisingly very popular with her 60 plus classmates. I suggested that she could make some money here but she wouldn’t hear of it. I was duly appointed chief unpaid English advisor (thank you my love ;o), and the document, all 23 pages, downloaded. Part 1 wasn’t too difficult. A case of; complete the missing words from four choices, although one or two were a little ambiguous. However, Part 2; Reading Comprehension brought frowns, looks of consternation, perplexed expressions and near panic in some cases. This comprised of reading some text and answering questions from the four options provided. The problem was that the students answers didn’t correspond to the answers provided on the last page of the document….which I have to admit I hadn’t even looked at (too confident or just plain arrogant?) I checked and double checked. In one section out of 20 questions, 12 of the answers provided were completely wrong. So, my dilemma is, should I let the “revolting” students sort out the problem themselves or should I write a letter to the head of department as a native English speaker, respectfully pointing out the errors? Obviously I don’t wish to start an International incident or bring down the wroth of an embarrassed college on to my partner. Any advice? [/quote]
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