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‘Children should be taught to speak English properly when they come to school.’ Discuss the linguistic, social and educational issues raised by this comment.
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Word count: 2999 BEd English 'Children should be taught to speak English properly when they come to school.' Discuss the linguistic, social and educational issues raised by this comment. The above statement is a sweeping and very controversial one! It presumes that we all have a unified meaning of the language used. Before I am able to discuss the issues it raises about the English Language and teaching, I need to have a clear starting point. The first phrase that raises issues is 'children should be taught to...' this is a statement used frequently in the National Curriculum, which never defines it. Does this teaching refer to didactic teaching which is a direct transference of knowledge from teacher to child? Or a child centred teaching style where there is no final outcome sought for and is based on the child's own interests (Dewey in Palmer 2001)? In the context of teaching Spoken...
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