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Direct linkTarpey, Paul – English in Education, 2017
In this piece I explore the concept of 'growth' in English teaching. Starting with John Dixon's 'growth' model, I argue that, by re-imagining his ideas in current contexts, practitioners might re-focus and re-invigorate the priorities of English teaching. Dominant conceptions of 'growth' are explored, along with their influence on teacher working…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Teaching Methods, Cultural Influences, Models
Shafer, Robert E. – 1977
The key ideas developed by the Writing across the Curriculum Project begun at the University of London in 1965 center on the ways in which discourse is acquired by children in a psycholinguistic sense. Among those ideas are (1) knowledge is socially determined through the interweaving of individual consciousnesses, each of which is busy construing…
Descriptors: Child Language, Curriculum Development, English Curriculum, Interdisciplinary Approach
Thomson, Jack Ridgway – CORE: Collected Original Resources in Education, 1977
Bernstein's theory of the relationships among social class, language "codes," family/school social structures, and school success is discussed, as is Labov's rejection of the "verbal deficit" concept. A relevant experiment is described. (Available in microfiche from: Carfax Publishing Company, Haddon House,…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Classroom Communication, Dialect Studies, Disadvantaged
