Learning about language : issues for primary teachers
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Learning about language : issues for primary teachers
（English, language, and education series）
Open University Press, 1996
- pbk.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [130]-135) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
What kinds of things do children know about language, and how is that knowledge developed in the primary years? How can primary teachers make use of contemporary linguistic and educational theory in their teaching about language? How can teachers use authentic examples of the spoken and written language around us to meet the requirements for 'standard English and language study' in the 1995 English National Curriculum? The topics of 'standard English and language study' form a recurring stand in the revised (1995) version of the English National Curriculum, presenting primary teachers, in particular, with new challenges. At the same time, there is increasing international interest in what children know about language and how that knowledge can be developed without returning to unsatisfactory, decontextualized grammar exercises. This book addresses a number of issues related to these themes. It places current curriculum requirements in a historical context and reviews evidence for how children's knowledge about language develops during the primary school years.
Above all, it presents a wide range of practical suggestions for using many different kinds of texts, both spoken and written, as a basis for teaching children about real language.
Table of Contents
- Knowledge of language
- descriptions of language
- language as social practice
- progression in learning about language - discourses of development
- knowledge about language - controversy in the curriculum
- the school as a linguistic institution
- teaching about language - principles and methods
- teaching about language - topics, projects and plans.
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