veeery interesting!

i am looking at the responses given by students of native vs. nonnative english-speaking teachers! it's quite interesting! the biggest difference so far is in the responses to these statements:

i prefer NATIVE English-speaking teachers: students of native teachers say yes! students of nonnative teachers say not sure. (does it really mean that they sometimes like nonnative teachers or that they don't want to be mean?)

NONNATIVE teachers have difficulties understanding and responding to students' questions: students of native speakers say not sure! students of nonnative speakers say no!

my teacher's explanations and directions are clear in general: students of native teachers say yes, students of nonnative teachers say not sure.

if i could choose a new teacher today i would: students of native teachers strongly disagree, students of nonnative teachers disagree.

overall i like my english teacher this semester: 20/20 students of native teachers say yes, 17/20 students of nonnative teachers say yes. (doesn't that contradict the above results???)

weird.

good news: i called the stats dept. again and made an appointment with the for wednesday! note to self: don't ever wait for people to contact you, even if you've reminded them and called them and emailed them 200 times! i've also worked most of the day on the article and only need to add a few standard dev. and t-test results (which i'll get on wednesday!) and i'll be DONE! yeeeeehaaa!!!