Argument221 【0710天道酬勤互改小组】purple第二次作业

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ARGUMENT221
The following appeared in the editorial section of a student newspaper.

"In a recent survey, most students who were studying beginning Russian gave higher course-evaluation ratings to classes taught by non-native Russian speakers than to classes taught by native Russian speakers. The reason that the non-native speakers were better teachers of Russian is easy to see: the non-native speakers learned Russian later in life themselves, and so they have a better understanding of how the language can be taught effectively. Therefore, in order to improve instruction for all languages and also save money, our university should hire non-native speakers as language instructors instead of trying to find and recruit native speakers."


According to the statement above all, the author gets the conclusion that the university should hire non-native speakers as language instructors and in the way they also can save the cost. However, the author just use a recent survey as information to support his assumption, therefore his conclusion is weak and unconvincing.

At the beginning, the survey suggests that most students, studying beginning Russian, prefer to give higher evaluation to non-native speakers cannot strongly support the author's assumption that non-native speakers are better teachers than native ones. Such a survey does not indicate all students who study Russian offer higher evaluation to the non-native speakers. It is possible that students, who begin to learn Russian, are easier to accept the way of instructing beginning Russian which guide by non-native speakers, science their speed is slower than native ones, the tune and pronunciation of Russian is more articulate than native ones, and they know that the new students of Russian do not have the ability to absorb many information about the language so they iterate what they teaching in the next class. In contrast, as a native speaker, the speed must be fast and students who just study Russian can not follow the steps what they taught. As a result the new ones will prefer to guide by non-native ones .However, if you want to study more about the language, the native ones will better than non-native ones. They know better about the language than the non-native ones, and they can offer a real circumference when you talk to them. The goal of learning a language is using it, therefore when you communicate with the native ones you have the idea that how the native ones use them which can not learned by the non-native ones.

On the other hand, even as Russian instruction the non-native ones is better than the native ones, it is arbitrary to get the conclusion that non-native ones are better for all kinds of languages. Some languages is hard to learn and if you guide by the non-native ones it is possible that you will be guide in an miss way. For example, learning Chinese if you guide by an native ones you can learn how to pronunciation because the pronunciation is the base to learn Chinese well, but as  a foreigner ,which system of pronouncing is different with that of Chinese, non-native ones can not pronounce the tune exactly what will bring bad influence for the higher study. Thus, even though the Russian can be taught better by non-native ones, it does not mean non-native speakers is more suit than native ones for teaching each kind of language.

Moreover, the cost refers to many aspects, and we don't know the details about the difference between salary of the non-native ones and the native ones. It is possible that in the area there are many non-native people who work as language instructors so the salary of them have little range. In this condition, it may be paid more than non-native ones but they can offer higher quality which attracts more students to study in the university. Thus the university should not stop to recruit the native ones to teach their mother language.

In sum, the argument lacks the details and strong testaments to warrant the author’s assumption. Without this information we can not be convinced and accept the author’s conclusion.