(DOWNLOAD) "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 * eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: 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
- Author : Richard Hudson
- Release Date : January 01, 2010
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 102 KB
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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.
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