Oral and Written English Proficiency Of Students Nowadays?

Question

Can anyone give a comment about how good or bad the students in different schools are in terms of speaking and writing using English?
Can you guys differentiate the proficiency in English during the 1980s and the time of the 21st Century?

Answer 1

It's a myth that people nowadays are somehow "worse" at grammar than people in the past. Many of the grammar rules that people supposedly break were actually created in the 1700s, hundreds of years after people started using these things in English. Split infinitives and double negative are two example of grammatical features that existed in English long before the rules that prohibit them were written. In many cases the rules were created to make English more like Latin, which has proved to be an arbitrary decision. So the people that you think are wantonly breaking rules nowadays are actually just using the same forms that English speakers have been using for hundreds of years, regardless of what the rulebooks say.