Oh man, creative thinking is not an aspect that kids understand in Taiwan. Like writing a summary on a simple story, they always froze because there werent absolute rules they could follow. They struggled to even start.
Now, I’m surprised because if it were up to me, I would ensure that my students regurgitate some sentence starters like After reading this book, I feel… haha. Seems like they haven’t been drilled adequately by their teachers!
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My students werent the best. For my school, it was more important to pass them than to make sure they understood and learned english. Anyway, I helped them out by organizing their summaries the best I could. I told then one page equals one sentence. Then they kind of understood how to make a summary.
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