Scott Reynolds <sar@gol.com> wrote in message news:<ch8sjm$c9f$1@newsflood.tokyo.att.ne.jp>...
> On 9/3/2004 4:39 AM, John W. wrote:
> 
> > A friend of mine teaches at a
> > private school in the US and sometimes expresses amazement at the
> > things Japanese students who go there think they can get away with.
> 
> Any specific examples? (Just curious.)

The things he mentions most involve plagiarism on school papers. These
days there aren't many Japanese; none, maybe. But the problem extends
to Korean students as well (not sure if there's a true parallel or
just coincidence). The students get told very clearly the punishment
for plagiarism. They get told that he (the teacher) will check very
thoroughly, including using the Internet. They get told even of some
of the mistakes that trigger his suspicion. Yet they inevitably turn
in a paper with God awful grammer and sentence structure spotted with
expert prose (that a quick Internet search reveals to be plagiarized).
He fails the student on that paper, and the students just don't seem
to understand, their parents call, etc., seemingly blaming the teacher
for the kid's laziness.

John W.