article_snippet.sent: The proposals, announced by Oxford, Cambridge and RSA Examinations (OCR), aim to rid classrooms of ‘tired phrases’ which some pupils now see as outdated.
article_snippet.sent: OCR languages expert Katherine Smith said: ‘This entails moving away from working too long on a clichéd topic until a student is bored with it, to working on more appealing subjects, and with an all-important shift in emphasis on the skills that they can transfer across content.
article_snippet.sent: This has de-skilled students and led to ‘topic fatigue’.
article_snippet.sent: One teacher at an OCR teacher consultation said: ‘Students are not really going to meet somebody in a café in Paris and describe Students entire family.
article_snippet.sent: Pupils would no longer be forced to recite phrases like ‘
article_snippet.sent: and instead would be able to express views such as ‘
article_snippet.sent: OCR also wants to abandon inflexible vocabulary lists and encourage pupils to use a smart app to help inflexible vocabulary lists memorise words.
article_snippet.sent: While language teachers are pulling language teachers hair out as language teachers student numbers decline with languages not prioritised by the current system, captains of industry are also deeply frustrated.
highlights_snippet.sent: Proposals aim to rid classes of ‘tired phrases’ now through to be outdated .