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Don't give up writing

1.The practice of students endlessly copying letters and sentences from a blackboard is a thing of the past.

2.With the coming of new technologies like computers and smartphone, writing by hand has become something of nostalgic skill.

3.However, while today’s educators are using more and more technology in their teaching, many believe basic handwriting skills are still necessary for students to be successful-both in school and in life.

4.Virginia Berninger, professor of educational psychology at the University of Washington, says it’s important to continue teaching handwriting and help children acquire the skill of writing by hand.

5.Berninger and her colleagues conducted a study that looked at the ability of students to complete various writing tasks-both on a computer and by hand.

6.The study, published in 2009, found that when writing with a pen and paper, participants wrote longer essays and more complete sentences and had a faster word production rate.

7.In a more recent study, Berninger looked at what role spelling plays in a student’s writing skills and found that how well children spell is tied to know well they can write.

8.“ Spelling makes some of the thinking parts of the brain active which helps us access our vocabulary, word meaning and concepts. It is allowing our written language to connect with ideas.” Berninger said.

9.Spelling helps students translate ideas into words in their mind first and then to transcribe “those words in the mind written symbols on paper or keyboard and screen,” the study said.

10.Seeing the words in the “mind’s eye” helps children not only to turn their ideas into words, says Berninger, but also to spot spelling mistakes when they write the words down and to correct then over time.

11.“In our computer age, some people believe that we don’t have to teach spelling because we have spell checks,” she said.

12.“But until a child has a functional spelling ability of about a fifth grade level, they won’t have the knowledge to choose the correct spelling among the options given by the computer.”

第四十一篇

不要放弃手写

1.学生无休止地从黑板上抄字母和句子的做法已成为过去。

2.随着电脑和智能手机等新技术的出现，手写已经成为一种怀旧的技能。

3.然而，尽管今天的教育工作者在教学中使用越来越多的技术，但许多人认为，基本的书写技能对于学生在学校和生活中取得成功仍然是必要的。

4.华盛顿大学教育心理学教授维吉尼亚·伯宁格表示，继续教授手写，帮助孩子们掌握手写技能是很重要的。

5.伯宁格和她的同事进行了一项研究，观察学生完成各种写作任务的能力，包括在电脑上和手写上。

6.这项发表于2009年的研究发现，当用笔和纸写作时，参与者写的文章更长，句子更完整，单词生成速度更快。

7.在最近的一项研究中，伯宁格研究了拼写在学生写作技能中所起的作用，发现孩子拼写的好坏与他们的写作能力有关。

8.“拼写使大脑的一些思考部分活跃起来，帮助我们获取词汇、单词的含义和概念。它让我们的书面语言与思想联系起来。”伯宁格说。

9.该研究称，拼写有助于学生首先在脑海中将想法转化为单词，然后将“这些单词在脑海中写成符号，写在纸上、键盘上和屏幕上”。

10.伯宁格说，用“心灵之眼”看单词不仅能帮助孩子们把想法变成单词，还能帮助他们在写下单词时发现拼写错误，并随着时间的推移加以纠正。

11.“在我们这个电脑时代，有些人认为我们不需要教拼写，因为我们有拼写检查，”她说。

12.“但是，直到孩子的拼写能力达到五年级的水平，他们才会知道如何在电脑给出的选项中选择正确的拼写。”