The Canadian Press: Students failing because of Twitter, texting and no grammar teaching - 25 views
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Almost a third of those students are failing.
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For years there's been a flood of anecdotal complaints from professors about what they say is the wretched state of English grammar coming from some of their students.
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the failure rate has jumped five percentage points in the past few years, up to 30 per cent from 25 per cent.
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