ORTHOGRAPHY AND PUNCTUATION - A NECESSITY AND A CHALLENGE OF THE PRIMARY SCHOOL EDUCATION
ORTHOGRAPHY AND PUNCTUATION - A NECESSITY AND A CHALLENGE OF THE PRIMARY SCHOOL EDUCATION

Summary/Abstract: Formation and development of those skills and competencies necessary to express pupils` thoughts and feelings in a correct, logical and concise way, awareness of the process of communication and cultivation of a clear and correct speech and writing are permanent concerns of the educators. In assessing the culture of a person, the way he writes and pronounces correctly is a basic index, as writing (and speaking) in accordance with the rules of a language is no longer characteristic only to philologists or people with higher education, but to any person. Thus, the problem of correct writing and properly use of punctuation marks appears since the early years of school, at primary level. The existence of orthographic and punctuation rules is an important factor in the stability of the literary language that schoolchildren assimilate, but the difficulty lies precisely in the decoding of these norms at the level of the children’s language. It becomes, consequently, the task of teachers to find methods and approaches that are accessible to primary school pupils and lead to diminishing and even excluding the amount of mistakes school faces with at the moment. The teaching of the Romanian language goes through a difficult way, but this action must be organized, systematically and methodically, on each of the discipline`s levels. The present paper wishes to highlight the difficulties that appear in spelling and punctuation in primary school education, as for example those perceived by teachers and, in particular, by pupils, and to offer the remedies teachers chose to use

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