Language deterioration among students in Belgium, higher education teachers say
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- 28 Mar 2023
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Both Dutch and French-speaking teachers of Belgian higher education universities and colleges have raised concerns over what they see as a " degradation of language" among students over the past years.
The situation was recently brought to public attention when Professor of Medicine and Vice-chancellor of UAntwerp, Filip Lardon, tweeted in distress after going through the exam papers of students. Multiple Belgian media have since reported on the issue, both from the Dutch and the French-speaking regions.
Tweet translation: Improving exams. First Bachelor of Medicine. The number of language and especially 'dt' errors is unimaginable. I'm starting to wonder if they agreed to play a joke on me to deliberately write down as many as possible. If so, they succeeded.
Dozens of lecturers responded in agreement to the tweet. While it may be surprising to those who do not consistently grade papers, over the past years numerous studies have been done on the topic of language degradation among students. Read More..
