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Reassessing language and literacy

edited by Mike Hayhoe and Stephen Parker

(English, language, and education series)

Open University Press, 1992

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"Papers presented in the spring of 1991 at the Fourth International Convention on Language and Learning held by the University of East Anglia" -- CIP

Bibliography: p. [113]-120

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This collection addresses three key themes of rising significance in the world of English teaching. The first is the debate over the increasing intervention by the state and mercantilist ethics in education; the second is the movement away from literature to transactional uses of language as the main focus of the English curriculum, and the third is the increasingly dominant theme of assessment. These three themes are interlinked and inform each of the chapters; overall, the volume gives us a state-of-the-art picture of these significant debates in English teaching.

Table of Contents

  • English studies and national identity
  • the language of organizational change
  • from production to deployment - talking and writing for social action
  • encouraging positive attitudes to language and learning among multilingual/bilingual speakers in schools
  • critical language awareness and people's English
  • literary literacy, censorship and the politics of engagement
  • information books in the primary school
  • new demands on the model for writing in education
  • what does genre theory offer?
  • defining reading standards
  • experience versus instruction - the continuing dilemma.

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