LANGUAGE ACROSS THE CURRICULUM: EXAMINING THE PLACE OF LANGUAGE IN OUR SCHOOLS
Abstract
Lip service has been paid for as long as we can remember to the proposition that "Every teacher is a teacher of English. " It is the very rare school or university where this is indeed the case. Drawing heavily on the monumental Bullock Report, set up in 1973 to meet concern in English about the quality of English teaching, Bryant Fillion makes plain how complete (but feasible) a revolution is involved in any serious implementation in school of the language policy that the situation calls for. His explorations of the actual daily or weekly written output of students, in three successive inquiries in different schools, reveal some disconcerting realities about what typically happens now; and in spelling out the questions a teacher really must ask about his or her own work, he makes it clear that the kind of activities in class that are required are radically different, even in English classrooms.Downloads
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1979-01-01
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Fillion, B. (1979). LANGUAGE ACROSS THE CURRICULUM: EXAMINING THE PLACE OF LANGUAGE IN OUR SCHOOLS. McGill Journal of Education / Revue Des Sciences De l’éducation De McGill, 14(001). Retrieved from https://mje.mcgill.ca/article/view/7253
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