This may affect students’ interest in learning languages, and they may even feel afraid of learning English, Chi warned. This is why children are taught free writing before they are taught academic writing,” Tam said. According to Tam, students can begin doing this in eighth or ninth grades at the earliest. Tam knows some students who got 9.0 IELTS Writing score but were described by Harvard Professors as verbose and having no clear character. As for primary school students, Tam thinks they should allow Movers, Flyers, KET, PET, and others to help use programs more suitable to their ages.
