Thoughts on "Writing Across Borders"

After watching "Writing Across Borders," I felt I had gained a new awareness of the hardships that International students face when taking classes in the United States. When you speak to a person from another country, you tend to overlook the small grammatical and lexical issues you hear, possibly pointing something out to them as the conversation goes along, but mostly taking in the meaning of what they tell you rather than worrying about the "correctness". However, you tend to take grammar for granted when reading and writing. You aren't typically faced with the challenge of reading something from a person who doesn't know the language as well as you do. After seeing this film and being made aware of these issues, I will definitely think twice before judging a person's writing ability on small errors they may make.