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Latin's contribution to English grammar
Tanya Chilcott reports that (In your report,) the head of curriculum at a Brisbane private school planning to make Latin compulsory for Year 7 students thinks that a knowledge of this dead language will provide a deeper understanding of English grammar (“Fail Caesar”, 20/6).
That may be so, but learning any foreign language will, by contrast, make the grammatical patterns of one’s first language more apparent.
If the aim is to develop explicit knowledge of the grammar of English (English grammar), that could be achieved more efficiently by increasing the time allocation for (the) subject (of) English in schools.
Since I started teaching high school English more than 40 years ago, the territory of the subject has expanded considerably but the time allocation has remained static.
Garry Collins
President, Australian Association for the Teaching of English
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Author: Garry Collins, AATE President
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The Shakespeare SessionsThe Shakespeare Sessions presented by Charlie Thomson (All Souls and St Gabriels), Dr Claire Hansen and Dr Victoria Kuttainen (both from JCU) on Saturday 28 April from 9am to 12 noon. This will be a fabulous session. Download the flyer here. And it's FREE. Required pre-reading: Place-based education and the Australian Curricul... |
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