Author

Publication

1996 - Open University Press, Buckingham, England

Language

English

Word Count

39,750 words, Guess

Page Count

159 pages

Identifiers

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  • LibraryThing2296825

Classifications

  • DDC428/.007
  • LCCPE65 .D38 1996

Description

"This book explores the question What is English Teaching? from a variety of perspectives, including teachers' beliefs about what they should be teaching, the views of the government, and the reality of young people's experiences in the 1990s. In particular, it explores the question of how - and even whether - the English subject area is capable of meeting its own, and the outside world's, expectations for teaching not only its specialist concerns, but also general literacy. The book explores ways in which the teaching of English might develop - for instance, by balancing its efforts evenly between literature study, media study and knowledge about language - and how it might contribute to wider literacy teaching, by sharing its distinctive teaching strategies with teachers of other subjects."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

Series Statement

  • English, language, and education series

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