Is improving
"My experience is that the majority of children benefit from such an approach and that children's reading is improving as a result."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-25917646
Why the speaker has used the present progressive instead of present simple? What would sentence convey if the present simple is used?
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Jigneshbharati My experience is that the majority of children benefit from such an approach This is a general fact — according to Dr. Waugh. Jigneshbharati children's reading is improving He has observed a specific trend.
- Jigneshbharati My experience is that the majority of children benefit from such an approach This is a general fact — according to Dr.
- Waugh.
- Jigneshbharati children's reading is improving He has observed a specific trend.
- Children are now doing better at reading.
- "Children's reading improves" would be another general fact, not a statement of what is really happening now.
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JigneshbharatiMy experience is that the majority of children benefit from such an approach
This is a general fact — according to Dr. Waugh.
Jigneshbharatichildren's reading is improving
He has observed a specific trend. Children are now doing better at reading.
"Children's reading improves" would be another
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