[etni] Re: Compositions

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At 16:10 28/12/03 +0200, Candy Schorer wrote:
>We all know how much "yunching" goes on every time we ask a class to write 
>a composition. Getting students

There's an additional problem that has nothing to do with English.  In many 
schools, general composition writing/planning skills are not taught until 
right before the bagrut in the 12th grade.

Israeli students are not taught how to outline, organize their thoughts, 
etc. Summarizing usually is in university.  The general academic skills the 
students need to do well in 5 point English have to be taught by us, 
instead of their having it as prior knowledge.

This causes us to waste our limited English time on things they can learn 
more easily and more quickly in Hebrew.

Batya





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