Thursday, May 23, 2013

French Mad about Bid to Add Courses in English

The French are in an uproar with a new law being proposed that French universities have to teach more classes in English. The article worded the problem as being "France sacrificing its language to "Americanization disguised in globalization." The people who support this are rallying behind it in the lower house of Parliament because they think the lack of English is hurting their competitiveness with the rest of the world. To prove a point a French newspaper printed the cover in English the next day after the proposal about supporting the law. One woman was quoted as saying the protests are due to "a lack of confidence in our culture."

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/24/world/europe/french-upset-over-more-english-proposal.html?ref=world&_r=0

Jessica Connor

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