Teaching move in France
(N.Z. Preu Ann—Copyright) PARIS, Dec. 5. French schoolchildren will have the right to use a ballpoint or felt-tipped pen instead of pen and ink, and will also be spared daily “dictation,” under a new series of instructions issued by the Ministry of Education. Placing more emphasis on helping children to think and communicate than on teaching them how to read and write, the Ministry has instructed primary school teachers to encourage playful I activities; refrain from any [systematic method, and reject the world-wide syllableprocess of learning to read; use "structural exercise” to teach language and grammar, rather than the traditional daily “dictation”; and allow i children to write in a cursive, flowing style, and with [a ballpoint, rather than do ■pages in formal calligraphy.
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Press, Volume CXII, Issue 33093, 7 December 1972, Page 17
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