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- it’s not from School A but was written out
by a fifteen year old boy for his CSE and
that’s all I’m going to tell you about it.
I just want you to read it - it’ll have to
be one between two - and at the end after
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