Metalanguage usage in the UK primary school classroom

Posted on May 10, 2017 by adrianstenton

Here’s an article from the UK Guardian newspaper on the use of grammar metalanguage in UK primary school tests!

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Adrian Stenton is a PhD candidate at Leiden University Centre for Linguistics and is currently investigating number concord in the species noun phrase. Adrian is part of the project Bridging the Unbridgeable: linguists, prescriptivists and the general public, which is supervised by Prof Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade.
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1 Response to Metalanguage usage in the UK primary school classroom

  1. Adrian Stenton says:
    May 10, 2017 at 7:48 pm

    Apologies in advance. That was a bit of a premature publication! I had meant to tie it in with a post from 2013, linked above, and to point out that Dick Hudson has a long connection with English language education, including a book called “Teaching Grammar: A Guide for the National Curriculum” (Blackwell, 1992), and so I suspect that he has never promoted metalanguage for its own sake. Another example of “out-of-touch” linguists, or just plain “expert-bashing”?

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