Wingham Advance-Times, 1977-09-28, Page 3ack of writing skIIIscon
When they started school this
fall 1,259 freshmenrstudents in the
University of Waterloo's Faculty
of Arts and Faculty of Human
Kinetics and Leisure Studies
were given a "language profi-
ciency" examination.
Of these, 535 or 42 per cent
failed to complete it satisfac-
torily, according to Dr. Ken Led-
better, associate dean of arts and
a University of Waterloo English
professor. Some will be asked to
write another exam later in the
year but most of them (38 per
cent) will be given extra tutoring
to improve their writing skills.
The University of Waterloo has
hired 25 tutors for them.
This was the second consecu-
tive year for the UW to test the
writing ability of the freshmen
arts students. Last year the test
and the special classes were
voluntary. This time, Dr. Led-
better says, students will not get
their degrees "until we have
some evidence that they can use
English reasonably well". For
most of the failures,•he indicates,
s Waterloo U.
passing a further exam np'. says.
time between now and 0' dam.—. Why is it that more than 40 per
tion is the simplest ,yay f, lylpt cent of the students came out of
monstrating proficiency . the high school system without
"We think students should ail ,. the ability to write well?
able to write decent paragraphs. Dr. Ledbetter says that as he
They should be able to putto- sees it there are two major prob-
gether half a dozen sentencesinto
lems: 1. public and high school
easonably coherent unit free of teachers haven't been taught how
jor grammatical flaws," he to teach writing skills, and 2. in
high school in particular they just
don't have time to do the job pro-
perly.
"A secondary school teacher in
this province sees an average of
180 students per•week," he says.
"In order to really help them with
their writing skills the teacher
ought to be able to make them
practise steadily. Now that would
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mean marking 189 writing
assignments per week, com-
menting on them, - if"elping in-
dividual students with a variety
of special difficulties, Having the
students rewrite the assignments
again, and -marking the rewrites.
It's just impossible."
He notes also that while teach-
ers are given course after coarse
of literary appreciation in uni-
versities and teachers' colleges,
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in how to deveo1)
Dr. Ledbetter says 'Watfriaa 1*
planning to become involYed in
finding solution to both major
problems.
The university settingOp: an
advisory coxnrnitteie ''to help tie
in our efforts to offer the negilati
types of courses". The UW16400
setting up a number of ' Other _.
committees, with representation
from the high school and public
school teaching professions, to
look into problems such as: what
are the financial implications,' of
reducing the work load ofhi
school English teachers so tHyy
could do a better, job teaching
writing skills? How can elemen-
tary and high school teachers be
better prepared to teach writing
skills? What is a satisfa t'ry
writing skill level for a r bite
school graduate„ a _' r school
graduate, a university . u at nate?
"We are certainly not ', criti-
cizing the public and high
schools," says Dr. • _ . "in
fact, it's something of a miracle
that they've done as well as they
have when you consider the
conditions theywork under. I'm
sure there are a great many hard
working, dedicated English
teachers in both systems right at
the moment."
Huron speed
limits set at
Prov, level,
Huron County Council did' not
accept a proposal of the County of
Middlesex to increase the speed
limit on County Road 5 , from
Highway 4 to Highway 81 from 80
kmh (50 mph) to 90 kmh (56
mph).
According to the road commit-
tee, who recommended thepro-
posal be rejected, the speed limit
on County Road 5 should -conform
with the speed limits on Highway
4 and Highway 81.
It waS pointed out by 'Reeve Bill
Morley of Usborne Township that
when ,people from his part of
Huron County go into London
they often use Highbury Ave. in
Middlesex County where the
speed limit remains at 60 mph.
According to Morley, this is ad-
vantageous "if you're a little be-
hind time"..
Ed Oddleifson of Bayfield cau-
tioned -Morley -thatril*:because
the signs have lgever been
changed, drivers do not have the
right to travel at that speed. He
said he'd been caught for speed-
ing in Middlesex.
Engineer Robert Dempsey said
Middlesex is one county in this
part of the province where the
speed signs have not been
changed, and he suspected it is
just a temporary delay. Some
counties, he said, had not
changed their road signs when
the speed limits were changed,
because they were expecting
another change to metric this
summer. Dempsey also said that
if speeders were caught on roads
posted at 60 mph it might be diffi-
cult for the courts to make a
charge stick if someone was
charged with exceeding the 80
kmh limit.
Huron's metric speed limit sign
conversion program is com-
pleted. About 400 speed limit
signs were changed at a cost of
about $10,000. This work is sub-
sidized by the Ministry of Trans-
portation and Communications.
The county council did not con-
cur with a resolution from the
Regional Municipality of Dur-
ham requesting additional fin-
ancing from MTC on a "per sign
basis" for metric conversion. '
The road committee told coun-
cil the cost of government setting
up, this one time program would
out -weigh the benefits each
municipality would receive. '•
Two services
for anniversary
WROXETER — A full church,
which overflowed to the gallery,
attended the anniversary ser-
vices at the United Church on
Sunday with the minister, Rev.
Wesley Ball, in the pulpit.
Prior to the opening of the
service, the organist, Mrs.
Gordon Raster, assisted by Miss
Marcia Gibson on the piano
played lovely preludes.
Rev. Ball took as his sermon,
"To hear the Word of God and re-
spond" He told a story to the
children and the choir wing two
beautiful anthems, led by Rev.
Ball.
Mr. and Mrs. Dick Allan of
Toronto presented their d:,, gh-
ter, Heather Margaret, for
baptism during the \morning
service.
The scripture lesson for the
evening service was taken from
St. John, chapter 15, and the choir
sang two anthems followed by the
sermon. "Strengthened For
Life".
Coffee and refreshments were
served in the church hall iilm-
mediately fallowing the service,