ABSTRACT
Language Awareness begins with teacher awareness. As specialists in English as mother tongue, English as a second language, community languages, classical languages or foreign languages we tend to think within our subject compartments, to reflect the structure of the education system and to transmit that structure to the minds of our pupils. Rather it is to say that a cross-curricular approach to Language Awareness offers a practical means of carrying out certain important aspects of a language policy or indeed of raising awareness that such a policy is needed. Informal discussion took place within the languages faculty and with some colleagues from the English faculty about cross-curricular work on Language Awareness, but it was not until February last year that a first formal meeting was held, attended by some members of the Languages and English faculties and including the head teacher, who is an English specialist.
