the language connection

''This is an excerpt from an installment of The Yomiuri Shimbun's Educational Renaissance series. This part of the series, continued from last week, focuses on helping children develop communication skills.
OSAKA--Juku cram schools are basically for helping students catch up with school studies or pass entrance examinations. However, one juku chain has gone further by introducing a course to help its students improve their thinking skills through dialogue-based classes.
The course aims at helping children develop "full-scale" thinking skills that enable them to come up with flexible ideas.''
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