Authority in Language: Investigating Language Prescription and StandardisationRoutledge & K. Paul, 1985 - 189 pages |
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Page 49
... teaching . In recent years , there has been a great deal of public discussion about the teaching of English in schools . In the 1950s and 1960s , following the early work of Basil Bernstein , educationalists seized on language use as a ...
... teaching . In recent years , there has been a great deal of public discussion about the teaching of English in schools . In the 1950s and 1960s , following the early work of Basil Bernstein , educationalists seized on language use as a ...
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... teaching of grammar may encourage a respect for precision and care , and it lays an essential basis for the teaching of foreign languages , but it has never been demonstrated that it is the main element in teaching effective writing ...
... teaching of grammar may encourage a respect for precision and care , and it lays an essential basis for the teaching of foreign languages , but it has never been demonstrated that it is the main element in teaching effective writing ...
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... teaching , an awareness of the social implications of prescriptivism does not amount , as is sometimes assumed , to the abandonment of any attempt to teach Standard English . On the contrary , as Cheshire's study of teachers ...
... teaching , an awareness of the social implications of prescriptivism does not amount , as is sometimes assumed , to the abandonment of any attempt to teach Standard English . On the contrary , as Cheshire's study of teachers ...
Contents
Standard English and the complaint tradition | 29 |
Spoken and written norms | 54 |
Grammar and speech | 70 |
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