Resources
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Now the Lib-Dems have got their way over sports funding, can we have more of their education policies please?
It’s brilliant news to read today that the government is now considering saving specialist sports teaching in our state schools. The general outcry against the axeing of sports’ provision in schools should make the Coalition think again about their policies. It appears that Cameron is now intervening to save the funding, essentially over-ruling Michael Gove, […]
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Halliday’s Functions of Language in the Child Language Acquisition Debate (by Nick Christodoulou)
Several attempts have been made to catalogue the different functions of language, and to chart child language development in terms of the increasing range of these functions to be found in the growing child’s repertoire. Michael Halliday’s taxonomy is documented below:- Instrumental: Language used to fulfil a need on the part of the speaker. Directly […]
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Links to English teaching sites at the Guardian
A useful page of links to English language teaching resources can be found on the Guardian‘s website here.