Books like The Education of Hyman Kaplan

Okay, Goodreads, now I've finished it. This book is light and funny. Hyman Kaplan is an immigrant living in the United States and taking a beginners English class at a night school for adults. The book focuses on Kaplan's strange use of the English language: his odd spelling, bizarre pronunciation, and his logical (but incorrect) understanding of word meanings. Kaplan's teacher, Mr. Parkhill, does his best to be patient with Kaplan and to correct his errors, but Kaplan is incorrigible. The other students have differing relationships with Kaplan, from antagonistic to respectful. The structure of the book consists of separate stories, each with its own title, regarding a different aspect of Kaplan's education or a different level of understanding achieved by Parkhill concerning his most difficult yet most entertaining student. I would love to use parts of this book as samples for my writing classes. I work with many second language students, and I've seen many of the errors and much of the confusion in them that Ross shows in Kaplan. And I've felt the same frustration that Mr. Parkhill feels with seeing the same or the same type of errors over and over. All in all, this is a good little book. I recommend it as something entertaining and light to read between heavier books. If you're a second language speaker or an instructor of second language students, you will definitely get a kick out of this. It is pre-World War II, though, so it's dated but still enjoyable.