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The love of all things English begins at a young age in non-English-speaking countries, promoted by pop culture, Hollywood movies, fast-food brands, sports events and TV shows.
Later, with English skills and international education qualifications from high school, the path is laid to prestigious international universities in the English-speaking world and employment opportunities at home and abroad.
But those opportunities aren't distributed equally across socioeconomic groups. Global education in English is largely reserved for middle-class students.
This is creating a divide between those inside the global English proficiency ecosystem and those relegated to parts of the education system where such opportunities don't exist.
[...] It's unfortunate so many schools view an English-speaking model as the gold standard and overlook their own local or regional wisdoms. We need to remember that encouraging young people to join a privileged English-speaking élite educated in foreign universities is only one of many possible educational options.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 11 2020, @08:39AM (2 children)
More leftist bullshit, but let's hear the idea out. International university applications in the West are way down this year due to coronavirus, stop teaching English as an international language on our way to defunding the humanities so we can keep it that way!
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 11 2020, @09:53AM (1 child)
More rightist bullshit, but let's let them flatuate, while we ram a red-hot iron rod up their anus, and pour molten gold into their mouth. Good enough for Crassus [wikipedia.org], good enough for the alt-right. (And, as usual, it was all Sulla's fault.)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 11 2020, @01:12PM
The decline of Blue cities, universities and the cancerous, anti-western and anti-humanist theology they preach. Come on Ari, you love to see it!