ABSTRACT
This chapter explains the term model to refer to a set of principles and beliefs which guide what we do day by day. For Britton and Newsome, activities and their associated language in the spectator role are the essence of English lessons. Britton's inspirational article The role of fantasy makes the important link between children's play in their earliest years and their later enjoyment of all things cultural including art, music and literature. Stories those that children read, write for themselves or have read to them as well as poems, plays and improvisations are near the centre of the English curriculum for all age groups. Britton's link between early play and this later learning and enjoyment is an important one for those who teach and those who learn in English lessons. The editor and contributor to the book, Teresa Cremin, integrates what many would feel is the best from each of the Dixon models.
