At school, the debate is about how to teach reading and writing. School focuses on literacy, but it makes more sense for children to become fluent in spoken language.
Children grow up with languages of TV, video and computergames.
Even more important in future will befluency in the non-verbal languages of multimedia. At school, a debate is raging about the way children are taught language. Then, they were taught to write and recognize individual letters. From then on, children were taught that words are built up from syllables put together according to grammatical rules. By adding -s to the noun book, one gets the plural form books .