[etni] Re: the NBA

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Is our school-aged English teaching so EXAM centered, that the real goal 
of real communicative ability will not be easy to achieve.  If we look 
at books or exams from even a decade ago, were texts actually easier? 
Could the 5 point Bagrut pupils write coherent essays or answer 
open-ended questions better than the kids today?

If the exam questions are not being answered correctly, maybe the 
problem has to do with a generation that is just not reading.  I feel 
the books were dealing with longer and tougher texts, when I began to 
teach in school here. (Remember  "Winning Strategies", a personal 
favorite ?) It was always clear that the 5 point Bagrut would not be 
passed by everyone. Not every "native" speaker kid got 100 on the Bagrut 
then either. BTW lots of kids had reading problems that were never 
diagnosed.

Do we know if our students are still learning English and will one day 
be able to communicate, read and comprehend? Does the Bagrut even begin 
to tell us that?

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Keep in touch, Gail Shuster-Bouskila

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"If we are taught what to think, but not how to think, 
     we end up not thinking at all" -- Mordecai M. Kaplan



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