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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In India, students learn English via one-way.  In Japan, students learn English via one-way.  In South Korea, students learn English via one-way.  In Finland, students learn English via one-way.  In Germany, students learn English via one-way.  In the Czech Republic, students learn English via one-way.  All over Europe, Asia, South America, and Africa, students learn English via one-way instruction.  And millions of it learn it very well.  Some of them learn it well enough to take your job.

Obviously.  Obviously language can be very successfully learned via one-way instruction.

The YY kids are fortunate that they're being taught by native speakers, which is an advantage that most language-learners don't have.  But if you think it's necessary to recruit Cantonese kids to Yu Ying in order for language instruction to be successful, then you're willfully delusional and you overvalue your snowflake's potential benefit to the class.  The school and the students will continue to thrive and be well educated without the Cantonese snowflakes.[/quote]

India cannot be compared... the country already has a relatively high English fluency, including having their own dialect. Some families actually speak English in the home. Similar statements can be said about many European countries... having more exposure to English and closer language families.

Japan and South Korea are actually perfect examples. And [b]have you heard their typical English speakers?[/b]  They are not so good. Their reading is much better.[/quote]

I heard them in grad school.  In engineering and finance they will kick your ass.[/quote]

Right. You heard a very biased sample.[/quote]

Interesting.  Looks like YY students would be the English-native equivalent of those high-performing foreign students![/quote]

The ones that enrolled in a Chinese university... yes they probably would...[/quote]

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