You would think with all the money Ohio State students and their parents spend on tuition each year the university could afford to hire instructors that speak our native language, English.
Don’t get me wrong, I have no problem with most international professors, and I think they have a lot to offer, however, I have experienced as well as heard many horror stories about classes that were impossible to comprehend as a result of unintelligible leaders.
In one of my classes last quarter I had an instructor that did nothing but put page after page of notes for us to copy on the overhead, while reading them aloud in an incomprehensible dialect. She did not explain the subject at hand, and when questioned she was unable to understand what we were asking, and simply responded by nodding, smiling or saying, “OK, we move on now.”
This was incredibly frustrating to the entire class, and made it very difficult to attend the lectures, must less stay awake. Tutoring helps, but shouldn’t extra instruction be an option and not a necessity? I think it is unfair to expect students to learn from an instructor who is not fluent in English. If that is what we came to college for, we would have taken advantage of the study abroad program.
Simone Bolotinfreshman communications
