Turner, Karen and Turvey, Anne (2002) The Space Between Shared Understandings of the Teaching of Grammar in English and French to Year 7 Learners: Student Teachers Working Collaboratively. Language Awareness, 11 (2). pp. 100-113. ISSN Print: 0965-8416 Online: 1747-7565
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Abstract
In this article, we describe a small scale research project in which an English and a French student teacher on our Postgraduate Certificate of Education course work collaboratively to develop their personal knowledge and understanding of grammar and its role in teaching both subjects to 11 year old learners in an English comprehensive school. The project begins with university-based discussions about the role of grammar in language learning as expressed in a number of government documents and professional journals and continues in school with lesson observation by students of experienced teachers and of each other. Ways in which the cross-language focus beneficially influenced their classroom practice are suggested. The article concludes with the discussion of a number of issues about planning for language development and teaching about language across the curriculum which arise from the project and makes some modest proposals for a way forward within government policy which remains separatist.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | This is an electronic version of an article published in Turner, Karen and Turvey, Anne (2002) The Space Between Shared Understandings of the Teaching of Grammar in English and French to Year 7 Learners: Student Teachers Working Collaboratively. Language Awareness, 11 (2). pp. 100-113. Language Awareness is available online at: http://www.informaworld.com/10.1080/09658410208667049 |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Language |
| Subjects: | Departments > Learning, Curriculum and Communication |
| Depositing User: | IOE Repository Editor (2) |
| Date Deposited: | 11 May 2010 10:56 |
| Last Modified: | 26 Jun 2012 22:33 |
| URI: | http://eprints.ioe.ac.uk/id/eprint/4204 |
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