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...Astronomy Department, Chair Robert P. Kirshner '70 says he has tried to deter such problems through informal discussion "language tests" with TFs at departmental parties...
...Kirshner acknowledges, though, that professors are sometimes forced to step in when the educational process seems to be impaired...
...really be a bit of an issue," Kirshner says. "Most likely they are conscientious people who know they are having a tough time. In some cases I help teach the sections, but by then most of the students have defected from them...
...Kirshner says international TFs face more than language obstacles in dealing with American college students...
...feel it basically helps solve the problem if teaching [is] delayed from the first to the second or third year of graduate school," Kirshner says. "That way, there would be more time to get used to American speech and culture...