Cuban students know how to write texts following the previous guidelines, but they need to improve their spellingthe United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) warned on Tuesday after presenting a report on the study it conducted in 16 Latin American and Caribbean countries to evaluate current teaching models.
The island’s Comparative and Explanatory Regional Study (ERCE 2019) writing test found that third and sixth graders know how to structure text and appropriately gender them according to tagline and purpose, the study found. rolls.
Likewise, the report points out that these students are adequate in the text area, ranging from vocabulary to the internal cohesion of writing, by going through the correspondence of sentences.
However, the report believes a greater emphasis on spelling is needed: “They need to improve the association between sound and letters” and “they need to improve some aspects of legibility conventions,” he suggests.
90% of the thirdyear students followed the instructions and wrote a text according to the guidelines, and 80% structured the first text (a letter) correctly, although the second (a description) was more difficult.
The vast majority did what was asked of them and 60% achieved consistent and coherent texts. 40% managed to write words in which phoneme (sound) and grapheme (writing) were associated independently of the orthographic norm.
But among sixth graders on the island, only half complied with the genderspecific instructions (a story and a letter) and 70% stuck to the agreement. In terms of readability, only about 40% met spelling standards, while 70% got it right.
The report assessed the ‘discursive domain’ (communicative purpose and adaptation to slogan, genre and index), the ‘textual domain’ (vocabulary, coherence, concordance and cohesion) and ‘readability’ (spelling and punctuation).
Students from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, the Dominican Republic and Uruguay took part in the study.
The study seeks according to UNESCO Evaluate the writing performance of third and sixth grade students in the areathrough the practical implementation of their skills in the development of texts from a communicative situation.
The aim is to give teachers strategies to make a contribution to teaching writing.
Regarding Cuba, 5,274 third graders from 247 schools and 5,126 sixth graders from 244 educational centers were evaluated.
In 2009, UNESCO conducted a similar study that showed that Cuban students scored well above the regional average in all subjects studied.