Information and Communications Technology (ICT) is changing the face of education. In this
timely and accessible book, Chris Abbott examines the process by which ICT, and in …

Throughout this volume, the chapters focus on the key aspects of the teaching and learning
of English, such as Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening, Language and Grammar …

English and Its Teachers offers a historical overview of the development of secondary
English teaching in schools over the past 50 years. Initially charting the rise of a new …

At a time when school-based English is in danger of becoming reductive and mechanistic,
the authors of this book reconsider the fundamental philosophy of English teaching …

This book is based on over ten years' recent experience of teaching English at secondary
level, finally as Head of English, Communications and Drama in a large comprehensive …

This chapter suggests that the best answer to the question of the domain-specificity of
formative assessment is that formative assessment is irreducibly both domain-specific and …

Why should young people study a subject called English? This question lies at the heart of
this fascinating monograph, which brings together the diverse perspectives of many leading …

This article takes as its starting point the notion that the extent to which action research is
accepted or rejected as a valid means of enquiry and professional development is largely …

It can be argued that nearly thirty years of heavily centralised intervention into English
pedagogy, curriculum and assessment have had a deprofessionalising effect on teachers …

The empirical data collected for this article are derived from an analysis of the ideology and
practice of English teachers working in three contrasting secondary schools. The analysis of …