faire asseoir

English translation: grounding

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French term or phrase:faire asseoir
English translation:grounding
Entered by: Crystal Samples

13:42 Dec 20, 2011
French to English translations [PRO]
Social Sciences - Education / Pedagogy
French term or phrase: faire asseoir
Finding it difficult to figure out "citer les compétences essentielles à faire asseoir chez les élèves" in this sentence. Does it mean that they couldn't even get the students to sit down in order to teach them? See below:

"Il a même été difficile pour certains enseignants et enseignantes de citer les compétences essentielles à faire asseoir chez les élèves afin qu’ils puissent apprendre à lire et à écrire au cours des trois premières années de l’école fondamentale."
Crystal Samples
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Local time: 10:40
grounding
Explanation:
The core skills in which the students need grounding.

The skills have to be "seated" in the students, so that they have a solid knowledge base.
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cchat
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Summary of answers provided
4 +4grounding
cchat
5to consolidate, strenghten
Laura Cecci Dupuy
4to implant
claude-andrew
4to cite the basic/essential skills that need to be taught so that students can learn to
MatthewLaSon
4create a foundation
cc in nyc
4(name) the core skills they needed to impart
Karen Vincent-Jones (X)


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6 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +4
grounding


Explanation:
The core skills in which the students need grounding.

The skills have to be "seated" in the students, so that they have a solid knowledge base.

cchat
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Thanks!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Simon Mac: yes, the skills to be instilled, the skills to get across, the skills to be laid down etc
2 mins
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agree  NancyLynn
1 hr
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agree  Yvonne Gallagher: and yx37029 gives other good alternatives
2 hrs
  -> Yes, thank you.

agree  Verginia Ophof: agree with yx37029......instilled would be my suggestion. in·still also in·stil (n-stl) tr.v. in·stilled, in·still·ing, in·stills also in·stils 1. To introduce by gradual, persistent efforts; implant:
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to implant


Explanation:
To fix deeply in the body or the mind. Nothing to do with sitting down!

claude-andrew
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to consolidate, strenghten


Explanation:
Consolidate, strenghten abilities and competences.

Laura Cecci Dupuy
France
Local time: 16:40
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Native speaker of: Italian
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to cite the basic/essential skills that need to be taught so that students can learn to


Explanation:
Hello,


I would word it like this (very different from the French but keeps the same basic meaning):

* The teachers have trouble citing the essential/basic skills that need to be taught so that the students can...*


faire asseoir = to lay the framework for/to plant (as in "faire asseoir les valeurs démocratique).

You can express the idea of "faire asseoir" without being super literal (as shown in my translation.


chez = with


I hope this helps.

MatthewLaSon
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create a foundation


Explanation:
So perhaps, "skills essential to creating a foundation..."

cc in nyc
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(name) the core skills they needed to impart


Explanation:
The key ssue here is that the teachers did not know what core skills they should impart to pupils before they could learn to read.

Karen Vincent-Jones (X)
United Kingdom
Local time: 15:40
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Native speaker of: English
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