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Is English a Language? A Brief History of a Pointless Dispute: Richard Hudson Argues That the Dominant Identification of 'English' with 'English Literature' has Marginalised the Study of the English Language As a Valuable Subject in Its Own Right

By Richard Hudson

Release : 2010-06-01

Genre : Education, Books, Professional & Technical

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What is English? What does the noun English mean? In ordinary usage there's no doubt that it's the name of a language: if I speak, understand or learn English, then what I am speaking, understanding or learning is a language. But put the word into an educational context, and uncertainty sets in. If you teach English, are you teaching a language or a body of literature or culture which happens to be written in English? And when the government describes English as a core subject, does it mean the study of the language or of its literature? It's not just English that faces these questions: exactly the same uncertainties afflict foreign language teaching, especially at university level. Where does the study of French--meaning of course the French language--fit into the programme of a French department? A BA programme in French or English need not have much to do with the language named in the title of the programme.

Is English a Language? A Brief History of a Pointless Dispute: Richard Hudson Argues That the Dominant Identification of 'English' with 'English Literature' has Marginalised the Study of the English Language As a Valuable Subject in Its Own Right

By Richard Hudson

Release : 2010-06-01

Genre : Education, Books, Professional & Technical

Kind : ebook

(0 ratings)
What is English? What does the noun English mean? In ordinary usage there's no doubt that it's the name of a language: if I speak, understand or learn English, then what I am speaking, understanding or learning is a language. But put the word into an educational context, and uncertainty sets in. If you teach English, are you teaching a language or a body of literature or culture which happens to be written in English? And when the government describes English as a core subject, does it mean the study of the language or of its literature? It's not just English that faces these questions: exactly the same uncertainties afflict foreign language teaching, especially at university level. Where does the study of French--meaning of course the French language--fit into the programme of a French department? A BA programme in French or English need not have much to do with the language named in the title of the programme.

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