Title: What is English teaching?
First published: 1996
Description: "This book explores the question What is English Teaching? from a variety of perspectives, including teachers' beliefs about what they should be teaching, the views of the government, and the reality of young people's experiences in the 1990s. In particular, it explores the question of how - and even whether - the English subject area is capable of meeting its own, and the outside world's, expectations for teaching not only its specialist concerns, but also general literacy. The book explores ways in which the teaching of English might develop - for instance, by balancing its efforts evenly between literature study, media study and knowledge about language - and how it might contribute to wider literacy teaching, by sharing its distinctive teaching strategies with teachers of other subjects."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Study and teaching, English philology, Secondary schools, English literature, Curriculum, English language, Englischunterricht
LC classification: PE65 .D38 1996