Learning to Teach English in the Secondary School

Learning to Teach English in the Secondary School by Jon Davison

This forward-looking book combines theory and practice to present a broad introduction to the opportunities and challenges of teaching English in secondary school classrooms. Each chapter explains the background to current debates about teaching the subject and provides tasks, teaching ideas, and further reading to explore issues and ideas in relation to school experience. With reference to new legislation, the chapters suggest a range of approaches to the teaching of reading, writing, speaking and listening, drama, media study, information technology, language study, grammar, poetry, Shakespeare, GNVQ and A Level English Language and Literature. Learning to Teach English in the Secondary School offers principles and practical examples of teaching and learning in the context of the end of the twentieth century when new notions of literacy compete with the demands of national assessment. Taking as its starting point the changing ideologies of English as a subject, the text addresses questions about the nature of teacher education. It raises issues concerning competence-based courses, working with a mentor in school and monitoring the development of a student teacher. Learning to Teach Subjects in the Secondary School series, edited by Sue Capel, Tony Turner and Marilyn Leask.

'A very practical companionThe writers are experienced teacher-trainers and mentors, acutely aware of the need for precise objectives and clear planning...It is a serious and thought-provoking book...I shall order half a dozen copies.' - English in Education

'The must-have book for all English Trainees.' - PGCE student

Jane Dowson is Reader in Twentieth-Century Literature at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. She has published broadly on women poets, including Women, Modernism and British Poetry 1910-39, A Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century British Women's Poetry (co-authored), The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century British and Irish Women's Poetry and Women's Poetry of the 1930s.

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ISBN 13	9780415156776
ISBN 10	0415156777
Title	Learning to Teach English in the Secondary School
Author	Jon Davison
Series	Learning To Teach Subjects In The Secondary School Series
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Taylor & Francis Ltd
Year published	1997-11-27
Number of pages	346
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