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That is a very fair point. Teaching in the UK at least seems quite faddish. At the moment, pre-teen children are taught extensive vocabulary to talk about how
by Robin_Message 8y ago
That is a very fair point.
Teaching in the UK at least seems quite faddish. At the moment, pre-teen children are taught extensive vocabulary to talk about how English is constructed.
They are taught terms like "split diagraph", which sound liguistic, but aren't terms actually used by linguists!
- iguy 8y agoRight! And don't they try to teach them to read at 4, while the Finns wait until 7, or something? The state of knowledge about what works best seems pretty poor.