
Issues in English Teaching / Edition 1
ISBN-13: 9780415206655 Publisher: Taylor & Francis Publication date: 12/16/1999 Series: Issues in Teaching Series Pages: 304 Product dimensions: 6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d) Issues in English Teaching invites primary and secondary teachers of English to engage in debates about key issues in subject teaching.The issues discussed include:*the increasingly centralised control of the curriculum, assessment, and pedagogy in the school teaching of English in England and Wales as a result of initiatives such as the National Literacy Strategy*new technologies which are transforming pupils' lived experience of literacy or literacies*the accelerating globalisation of English and the independence of other versions of English from English Standard English. A National Curriculum with a nationalist perspective on language, literacy and literature cannot fully accommodate English*what has become 'naturalised' and 'normalised' in English teaching, and the educational and ideological reasons for this*h