ABSTRACT
This article stresses the need for the implementation of recommendations made in the Bullock Report for teachers to receive a rigorous and linguistically systematic course(s) in language and learning, and does so in the light of some reasons why such courses have generally failed to materialize. The dangers of such a failure are very effectively highlighted by a mordant analogy with the professional training of doctors. The article is usefully supplemented by an appendix in which Professor Sinclair outlines, with reference to criteria established in the main body of the paper, the kirid of content he thinks appropriate to linguistics in education courses.
