The other thing about this educational strategy is that, all other effects aside, it discourages students from using more sophisticated vocabulary. If you try to use a complicated word and get it wrong, you will be punished. If you get it right but the teacher doesn’t believe you did so deliberately, you will also be punished. That’s a terrible lesson to teach children (or anyone else).
The other thing about this educational strategy is that, all other effects aside, it discourages students from using more sophisticated vocabulary. If you try to use a complicated word and get it wrong, you will be punished. If you get it right but the teacher doesn’t believe you did so deliberately, you will also be punished. That’s a terrible lesson to teach children (or anyone else).