Well, I have unfortunately crashed in that university to study my favorite subject...English, and I…read morewas pretty much disappointed; to the point of resenting contempt towards the so-called 'English teachers' who worked there. I say 'so-called' because to my surprise -- or, should I not have been surprised -- some 'teachers' in the English department didn't speak English. As a result, something didn't square in the equation. For how could they claim to teach something they didn't know to speak?! Can a pilot be a pilot without knowing to pilot?! The teachers I met there were the most hypocritical people I had ever seen! Some teachers would tell you they were 'linguists'. But here again, it didn't square with the result because they neither knew to analyze nor speak the language they were studying. As a strategy to confuse you, they would say a huge development in French about the language but this development was disastrous because it didn't explain anything about the language. The seminars were a series of plagiarisms which the 'teachers' couldn't even corroborate. So, they kept giving you a list of what such and such person said on such and such topic. They just couldn't analyze scientific facts because they knew very little about the language. I remember a 'supervisor' telling me about the phonetics and phonology of English. But it was wrong because it was an assertion based on French observation and, most importantly, rendered invalid by phoneticians and phonologists who wrote literature on the subject in England! I cannot end without saying a word about an erudite Canadian friend of mine who spotted the plagiarism and who, for being too bright to have spotted it, got a bad mark!
Well...too bad to be claiming one is so bright and knowledgeable for the sake of reputation and social welfare when the very opposite is the real truth! Learning the language on your own is even better than relying on this university, as far as English is concerned.
