Presents current thinking and practices in Queensland, Australia, about how to do critical assessment in the English classroom. Proposes and discusses a framework that brings together interest in text analysis and social practices. Applies the framework showing how it can be used to generate writing tasks and assessment criteria that are…

Examines how one secondary school department of English came together to work on poetry instruction with its contributing primary schools. Outlines the educational and organizational challenges involved in such a program. Supports attempts to work toward curriculum continuity between schools. (HB)

Describes an action research investigation into overcoming a tension felt in a particular approach to teaching literature. Wishes to make studying literature a meaningful experience for students and have them pass exams. Uses the idea of the forum, as described by J. Bruner, as a way of holding these two thrusts together. Evaluates effectiveness…

Argues that while spoken language has received a great deal of attention during the past decade, the methods of its examination have received too little. (AA)

Includes a list of some of the assignments made and poems written by several students. (RD)

Suggests that an individual's culture may be seen as a developing interaction to three different levels of experience--personal, interpersonal, and impersonal--and that English teachers need to think out their work in relation to all three levels. (GT)

Describes procedures used by a group of teachers in Sheffield, England, in developing a syllabus for English instruction. Discusses details of the syllabus and indicates assessment methods that were established. (GT)

Provides both a description of a pedagogic method and a demonstration of that method in practice. Describes the use of learning journals in a particular Shakespeare course. Explains that as a part of this course, student who are studying for degrees in English or Drama teach a Shakespeare play to classes in local Year 6, 7, and 8 inner-city London…

Describes part of a project that investigated pupils' attitudes to National Curriculum core and foundation subjects at Key Stage 3 during 1993 and 1994 in a range of schools across South Wales. Reports that English remains very popular (second only to physical education) among boys and girls, though particularly among girls. (TB)

Traces some of the historical developments which led to the current state of English instruction in colleges in Britain. Describes a series of ideological and institutional struggles that have marked the field since its inception. Sees these struggles as still raging within the discipline. (HB)

Explains the British government's suppression of the LINC (Language in the National Curriculum) training package materials. Discusses the significance of some of the training materials which will not be published because of the government's actions. (HB)

Develops strategies for encouraging students to read a variety of genres and authors. Shows how a program was organized with this end in mind. Discusses what students chose to read and their attitudes and perceptions of their reading and themselves as readers. (HB)

Provides a personal account of Great Britain's National Curriculum Committee's English Evaluation Project based at Warwick University. Describes the way the interim and final results of the committee were used by higher powers. (HB)

Considers the long-term future of the teaching of English. Discusses what English is for, what the content of English should be, what progression in English is, how the English curriculum should be assessed, and implications for teachers. Recommends actions the National Association for the Teaching of English should take to influence the upcoming…

The eight articles in the first section of this publication on the teaching of writing in British schools concentrate on classroom practices--ways of motivating student creative writing, the encouragement of group expository writing, and criteria to be considered when marking student writing. In the second section, five articles critically analyze…