I teach English (as a foreign language) in China, and they looooooove cursive. Apparently, ordinary letters are too boring. Although, that could entirely depend on which they learn first – which is boring and which is “drawing”. Strict geometric shapes are also used for expression. Still, they freak over my cursive r’s.
But, I can see the benefits in learning cursive first, as cursive-literate students can read print words more easily than the reverse, I would suppose.
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