Kevin Milne: Students waste time spelling words without undertsanding them

Saturday Morning with Jack Tame

English - November 23, 2018 21:31 - 5 minutes - 4.79 MB - ★★★★★ - 1 rating
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Former broadcaster Kevin Milne joins Jack Tame to discuss the recent debacle of students not knowing the meaning of the word 'trivial'.
Should NCEA students know what the word means and should the authorities have cut them some slack?
Kevin believes students spend wasted time learning to spell words rather than understanding their meaning.
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