Is there a need for children to handwrite letters?

byGreen Chameleon

Even though there are many opportunities to take notes with paper pen on paper, the opportunity to be required to handwrite letters as adults is greater than imagined, such as upon receipt of mail items or credit card signature It will be limited to. Meanwhile, BBC News wrote about the role that writing handwriting has.

Do we need to teach children joined-up handwriting? - BBC News
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41927258


In the state of Illinois in the United States, a law was passed which obliges students going to school to practice cursive handwriting by handwriting. In many American schools it is no longer an essential condition for education, and in some areas practice of cursive writing that has been dropped from the curriculum, why do you oblige the cursive practice in Illinois?

Senators in Illinois state claim that writing cursive is an "essential skill", but realistically, many adults are no longer writing letters with cursive writing . According to a survey conducted by Docmail, a British postal company, in 2000 for adults in 2012, two thirds of respondents said that "in a 41-day period, only short memoranda as much as a shopping list have letters in real life I did not write "and the place of activity of the cursive writing suitable for writing long sentences etc. has decreased at a stroke and it is clear that in the daily life the type letters the child remembers first is sufficient .

Because of that situation, like the state of Indiana in the USA,Completely away from cursive writingIn the state to do and practice handwriting like FinlandStep by stepThere are countries and regions that do. Inside,Abandon handwritten characters completelyThere are also Indian schools that have done, and policies are increasing to use time spent on handwriting practice to acquire "typing" and "coding" becoming essential skills in modern times.

byAaron Burden

However, by letting the child handwritten, you can obtain effects that can not be obtained with keyboard input etc. According to a paper published by researchers at the University of Aix-Marseille in France in 2005, the difference in the effect of typing and writing (handwriting) in children aged 3-5 years is terrible, I remember the contents of what the handwriter wrote You can do it.

In addition, in the survey published in 2012, we asked a 5-year-old child who had never studied literacy in the past to write, typing, writing letters and then asked the children to do MRI scans An image with written letters was shown. Then, although the brain area used for reading etc. became active in the children who wrote the writing, the same part of the typing children did not show activity status.

Researchers have concluded that there is a possibility that physical action "writing" may help children learn "to read something" although they have not been proved. Dr. Carine James, one of the authors of research papers, "To do something (moving the body) is important in building a brain system that plays an important role in cognitive development," I am talking. Also, as writing a letter, people who are just looking and those who actually move their hands will be totally differently affected.

Furthermore, the research carried out by researchers at the University of California at Los Angeles in 2014 also highlights the difference between keyboard and pen. In the research, I divided the university lecture into a group that memorizes using a paper or a pen and a group that makes a note using a notebook PC and tested how much the students remember the contents of the lecture. Then it turns out that students using pen and paper tend to process information at a deeper level. Dr. James, who engaged in research, says, "An act of trying to write down the contents by handwriting while someone is talking may be trying to make the other's words his own words." On the other hand, although the notes of lectures made by typing are completed faster, they seem to tend to record the contents of lectures as it is rather than notes.

byHelloquence

According to the research by the Carnegie Education Promotion Foundation,When the handwriting is dirty, the score of the test dropsResults of survey have also come out. This is not a story that the head gets worse if the handwriting is dirty, but the idea or "idea written in dirty" tends to be more severely scored.

On the other hand,British Dyslexia AssociationIn a survey of people with dyslexia by dyslexia, it seems that typing has greatly improved the results of the exams, people who have physical disabilities, and long-term records of their own ideas in a special way For people, typing is useful as a result.