I teach an adult evening class in formal writing skills. It is for learners who are under-confident about the daily writing tasks essential in work or other situations.
This is the second term I’ve delivered the class. A fascinating pattern is emerging. In both classes the composition of the students is roughly 3:1, non-native: native English speakers. These articulate, enthusiastically engaged, adults, mainly young, want to write more effectively.
Their language abilities exhibit an even more fascinating pattern. The non-native English speakers are weak on nuance and idiom but almost all, having been taught grammar in their own language and taught English on a sound grammatical basis, comprehend the grammatical foundations of English.
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