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Dialogue and Theory: On James Moffett's Work in English Teaching and Language Education
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Dixon, John – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2010
James Moffett's structuralist impulse to carve the "universe of discourse" into four related levels--drama, narrative, exposition, argumentation--was quickly reframed as a rough approximation, as he recognised the ways myth and fictions compressed several layers, and even everyday narratives potentially encapsulated some of the rest.…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Language Acquisition, Change Agents, Educational Theories