Arriving Charles De Gaulle Airport, Paris recently, I couldn’t
help but remember that I first encountered the name on the pages of James
Hadley Chase novels. That was many years ago, and as teenagers then, we prided
ourselves on how many works of the bestseller authors we read per time. Since
English was (and still is) the official language of instruction in school and
that of communication in our society, such novels helped us polish our written
and spoken English. In fact we read whatever came to our attention –
newspapers, magazines, short stories etc.
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| E2 Charles De Gaulle Airport |
Today of course, the focus has changed. Our youngsters are
most likely concerned with how many social sites they are on, their mobile
phones and features, music downloads, or the computer games they know. While
not denying that culture is dynamic, it is not too difficult to fathom why most
of our youths make a poor show in English language communication. Even their
posts on the social networks are nightmares in terms of content, construction
and correctness. Culture shift is inevitable, and I am not attempting to draw
back the hands of the clock; but I would suggest we bring back the reading culture!
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