The name is absent

I’ve gone through everything
talk about I'll show you how
marked. You can just give
reactions to it - whatever you

that I want to

it was actually

some

immediate

think.

By now her seminar presentation reflects her knowledge of teaching
and of learning for she involved the group in a task and then goes
on to discuss the development of language across the curriculum
through the Bullock Report and subsequent and related research. Her

quotations are pertinent.

fiii * Language competence grows incredibly through
an interaction of writing, talking, reading
and experience - the body of resulting work
forming an organic whole ..... *

putting
practice is
from getting
or changing
- language

language across curriculum into
a substantially different problem
new materials into use in schools
from streaming to mixed ability,
and learning. This is why I gave

you the first piece to look at. (Thornbury et
al 1978)

She goes on to read an extract with the group (Barnes 1971). It is

taken from a science lesson and concludes by emphasising

iv
fv

By learning here I mean- finding

selves what theyunderstand or

They've come to it from their
knowledge - so that’s one way

out for them-
don’t .....

own sort of
in which you

can look at language across the curriculum.

Experience based learning is now a part of her practice with the group.
The introduction to the topic via a piece of children's writing goes
directly back to a method session early in the first term. The
selection from the Bullock Report represents her practice with her