An American English teacher tells a class of 5-year-old Japanese children, each with a whiteboard and pen in hand: "Let's write down the sentence, 'I am hot.' "
"Chris, put a space between 'am' and 'hot'," the teacher tells a boy, who follows the teacher's advice.
"Look, I'm done!" the boy cheerily says, pointing at his whiteboard with the correct sentence on it.
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