Language Awareness at School

<P>All too often, schools make decisions about language without a proper understanding of the issues involved. <I>Language Awareness at School</I> addresses this problem by exploring a range of topics related to language, helping teachers to make informed choices about how to best support their students in becoming more confident, aware speakers and writers.</P><P>Written in collaboration by an academic linguist and an experienced teacher, this essential book combines professional experience and academic expertise to demonstrate how a language-aware approach to education has the potential to transform both whole-school policy and classroom practice.</P><P>Chapters explore such questions as the misconceptions surrounding the use of ¿Standard English¿, teachers¿ and students¿ local accents, the development of cross-curricular speaking and writing skills and how to reinvigorate Modern Foreign Languages. This book also works to undo damaging prejudices about how students speak, instead hig