Celebrity culture also has a powerful influence on children’s work, with Simon Cowell and Argentinian footballer Lionel Messi among the famous names cropping up repeatedly.
名人文化同样对孩子们的作文有着强大的影响力,像真人秀毒舌评委西蒙・考威尔以及阿根廷足球明星梅西这样的名人姓名都再三地出现在他们的文章中。
But pupils are let down by basic spelling, punctuation and grammar, according to the study by Oxford University Press, which looked at the entries to BBC Radio 2’s ‘500 Words’ competition.
但是牛津大学出版社的研究发现,小学生们在基本拼写、标点和语法上很成问题。该研究查看了英国广播公司第二之声举办的“500单词”作文比赛的参赛作品。
Children stumbled over simple spellings such as ‘does’ and ‘clothes’ and struggled to use the past tense correctly, often saying ‘rised’ instead of ‘rose’ or ‘thinked’ instead of ‘thought’.
孩子们会出现简单的拼写错误,比如拼错’does’和’clothes’,也不能正确运用过去式,他们常常把rose写成rised,把thought写成thinked。
Researchers also found that punctuation was underused, especially semi-colons and speech marks. Some did not know how to use capital letters.
研究人员还发现学生们标点该用的时候不用,特别是分号和引号。一些孩子竟然不知道如何使用大写字母。
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