ABSTRACT
This chapter comments on the development of English teaching in 1960s. A new model of English spread increasingly through the late 1960s and into the early 1970s across much of the rest of the country demonstrated a much wider rejection of the traditional model of grammar school English as one no longer fit for purpose. The progressive, growth model became articulated as a formed philosophy at any point for the wider teaching community in England, then this probably first happened in 1963, in embryonic sense at least, with the publication of the students and teachers essentially a course book and supporting material devised at Walworth school. English was during the period a highly contested subject. However, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that by the earlier 1970s there had been significant, even radical changes in the teaching of the subject in secondary schools, and the methods teachers are using in their classrooms.
