The Pompeu strategy to raise the writing level of new students

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When you enter the classroom, it's hard to know exactly what level of Catalan is being taught. In less than half an hour, they go from clarifying when a perquè is written together or separately to explaining how to justify that in a sentence there is a fronting at the beginning — when an element of the sentence is moved to appear later and give it more emphasis —, as well as deciding whether a verb is copulative or if in a sentence the pronoun referring to the circumstantial complement of place is missing. In fact, the way the session is conducted is reminiscent of a review class, were it not for the fact that we are in a classroom on the Pompeu Fabra University (UPF) campus and that the person at the blackboard is Aina, a fifth-year student.