Developing English
Published on 1. December 1990
Book
Paperback/Softback
128 pages
978-0-335-09584-1 (ISBN)
Description
This book is concerned with the translation of theory into practice in the English classroom. Chapters on key aspects of English teaching are interspersed by case studies of classroom practice. The book generates the kind of questions which can help support English departments at a time when they are increasingly pressed to give answers not about what they do, but about why they do it.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Milton Keynes
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
references, index
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
204 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-335-09584-1 (9780335095841)
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Content
Part 1 Evaluation: evaluating the English department, David Allen. Part 2 Oracy: perspectives on oracy, Allan Howe; loose talk - towards implementiong and managing a policy for oracy, Ken Wilby; media education and information technology and sites for oral work, Nicholas Roberts. Part 3 Knowledge about language: playing with words - a context for knowledge about language, Terry Furlong; exploring standard English in the classroom, Chris Marshall; eight- and nine-year-olds getting to know about language, Nikki Siegen-Smith; knowledge about language through the curriculum, Paul Rhodes; tuning up - what one professional writer needs to know about language, Philip Pullman. Part 4 Writing: shifting emphases, Pat D'Arcy; making drafting work in the English classroom, Sue Hackman. Part 5 Reading: a map of reading, Nick Jones; reading autobiography, Bronwyn Cadle; nothing more than a story - a conversation with a teacher, Jack Ousbey; teaching the novel - "Our Mutual Friend", Pam Barnard; teaching fiction 5-11, Dot Froggatt.