ABSTRACT

This book offers an opportunity to engage with the debates in English teaching and to explore the viewpoints of writers who have contributed to those debates. It provides invaluable introduction to the complexities of English to Novice English teachers.

chapter |2 pages

Introduction

part I|28 pages

An historical perspective

chapter Chapter 2|9 pages

The new orthodoxy examined

chapter Chapter 3|6 pages

The National Curriculum in English

part II|58 pages

Speaking and listening

chapter Chapter 4|10 pages

The National Oracy Project

chapter Chapter 5|12 pages

Perspectives on oracy

chapter Chapter 6|9 pages

Planning for learning through talk

chapter Chapter 7|8 pages

Talking and assessment in secondary English

chapter Chapter 8|7 pages

Bilingualism and oracy

chapter Chapter 9|10 pages

Standard English

The Debate

part III|77 pages

Reading

chapter Chapter 10|7 pages

Reading

chapter Chapter 11|7 pages

Making sense of the media

From reading to culture

chapter Chapter 12|11 pages

Information skills

chapter Chapter 13|8 pages

Working within a new literacy

chapter Chapter 14|9 pages

The centrality of literature

chapter Chapter 15|7 pages

Teaching black literature

chapter Chapter 16|9 pages

Teaching Shakespeare in schools

chapter Chapter 17|5 pages

Balancing the books

Modes of assessment in A level English literature

chapter Chapter 18|12 pages

How do they know it’s worth it?

The untaught reading lessons

part IV|68 pages

Writing

chapter Chapter 19|10 pages

Writing

chapter Chapter 20|7 pages

The National Writing Project

chapter Chapter 21|9 pages

Teaching writing

Process or genre?

chapter Chapter 22|7 pages

School students’ writing

Some principles

chapter Chapter 23|8 pages

Writing in imagined contexts

chapter Chapter 24|10 pages

Teaching poetry in the secondary school

chapter Chapter 25|15 pages

Getting into grammar

part V|29 pages

Research

chapter Chapter 26|9 pages

Girls and literature

Promise and reality

chapter Chapter 27|13 pages

Knowledge about language in the curriculum