My frustration today: I have a Physics professor who can barely speak English. When she lectures, she sounds like she's talking in her native language, and doesn't sound like she's speaking in English at all. The class is becoming increasingly disruptive, with students getting upset over not being able to understand a single word over a three-hour class (twice a week, too!). She repeats herself over and over again, until she gets upset, and then she becomes even less understandable.
If I just sit back and passively listen to her, I don't understand anything. If I concentrate really hard on every single word she says, I may get one out of ten. I mean, how is that acceptable for a professor? Maybe I'm just spoiled, and colleges just expect students to "deal with it," but if I'm having to super-concentrate just to figure out that she's actually speaking English, how am I supposed to learn anything?
I'm lucky, because Physics is very easy for me, and I can easily teach myself (if there were no attendance policy, I'd just show up for tests). But I know there are others in the class who are not so lucky, and they're getting more and more upset and distressed as time goes on.
Maybe colleges don't care, and they really do just expect students to "deal with it." I honestly don't know what a college's view would be on this subject. Or maybe this really is unacceptable for a professor. Anyone have any insight?
