ABSTRACT
This book sets out to support the student teacher in that part of becoming a ‘good’ English teacher — ‘knowing the subject’ — by bringing together some of the thinking on key areas in English, and relating that thinking to effective classroom practice. Teaching English offers an opportunity to engage with the debates in English teaching, and to explore the viewpoints of writers who have contributed to those debates. In reading Teaching English, the reader is asked to take part in a dialogue: a dialogue which exists between the reader and teacher of English, and the ideas on English teaching.
