ABSTRACT
For many, the most important tangible outcome of the 1966 Dartmouth Seminar was the publication of Growth through English (Dixon, 1967). Though there were other published outcomes from the seminar – an American summary of events appeared as The Uses of English (Muller, 1967) whilst other texts looked at drama and creativity in English (Barnes, 1968; Summerfield, 1968) – it is Growth through English that is considered to be the representative tome on proceedings. It is from the title to this text – ironically not Dixon’s preferred choice, as he favoured something like ‘Language in Operation’ as more fitting – that many people’s understanding of the growth model of English comes 1 .
