Years pass, and reading methods do not reach a consensus. Reflecting these wanderings, French students’ grades regularly show their difficulties in this area. In France, a country where social background weighs heavily on school performance, as the international Pisa ranking regularly points out, one in five students enter college without a basic knowledge.
However, since the 2000s, cognitive science, fueled by brain imaging, has confirmed that syllabic and phonics training alone can effectively develop the reading area of young children’s brains. Alas, the so-called “mixed” reading methods, which combine the famous “global” method (based on automatic word recognition) and the syllabic method, are still present in school. In vogue in the 1970s, these so-called “new” pedagogues have permanently infiltrated the professional culture of elementary school teachers…
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Source: Le Figaro
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