[etni] Re: Fw: From a checker who knows

The skills that Barry mentions are not ones that an English 
teacher should be expected to teach. The problem is that 
throughout the system, kids are not taught to read and 
analyse texts properly in their own mother tongue. What, 
therefore, can we as foreign language teachers do? 

My daughter, who is an English speaker whose level of 
fluency is almost equal to native-born speakers only got 87 
on Module E (Moed A). Admittedly she was only in 10th grade, 
but when we went over the exam, she had understood it 
perfectly. It seems that whoever is making up the tests now 
was previously employed as a composer of cryptic crosswords 
in a newspaper.
The English Bagrut should test the level of comprehension of 
the examinee not his IQ.
David 
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