From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,e94a7e4f6f888766 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Georg Bauhaus Subject: Re: Comments Date: 1999/10/23 Message-ID: <7usvo6$9kq$1@news-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 539713578 References: <7ttb4a$8mq$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <3803c8bc_2@news1.prserv.net> <3804E7E0.6A0265FB@mitre.org> <38077EB3.E6911567@mitre.org> <380CA5AC.82499FE2@ftw.rsc.raytheon.com> <7um9ji$dor$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <380F2BA5.1EEE15F1@ftw.rsc.raytheon.com> <7ur1gn$q5h$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <7urumg$cqj$1@nnrp1.deja.com> Organization: Gerhard-Mercator-Universitaet -GH- Duisburg User-Agent: tin/pre-1.4-19990216 ("Styrofoam") (UNIX) (Linux/2.2.5-15smp (i686)) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-10-23T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Ehud Lamm wrote: : Well, you have to remember that for most of my students : English is a foreign language. So they tend to use bad : names - for lack of vocab or language skills. They tend to : miss the noun/verb distinction when naming functions and : procedures etc. So, wouldn't it seem advisable to have "Natural Language Skills" in the curriculum? At least for non-english speakers (like me :-|)? While there is ongoing talk about The Globalisation (again), I can see that students are advised to learn a foreign language, but are otherwise left alone - the plans for their time at universities do not, in general, explicitely include slots for other skill that are nevertheless considered essential. As an aside, knowing how to use a typewriter seems also to be helpful, yet this isn't taught, is it? :-) -# Georg Bauhaus