https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25006975
For what it's worth this matches my own limited experience from the early 2000s.
For what it's worth this matches my own limited experience from the early 2000s.
Relevant from other comment:
> I don't know whether you've ever experienced a foreign-language class taught by a non-native speaker, but I've taken Academic Writing classes in English at a top Chinese university and the quality was terrible. English literacy is rare in China even though it is a mandatory subject, so the bar to becoming a teacher is quite low. Often, they'll have an excellent breadth of vocabulary, while being unfamiliar with many idiomatic expressions and cultural references that come naturally to a native speaker.