Keeping language study alive in the English classroom

Newsletter 242
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Shifting the paradigm: balancing prescriptive mechanics with oracy in the GCSE English Language classroom

Newsletter 242

Contents Shifting the paradigm: balancing prescriptive mechanics with oracy in the GCSE English Language classroom Jamelia Jackson The UK government’s landmark February 2026 Schools White Paper explicitly commits to ‘embedding oracy… within the curriculum’, following the recommendations of the Curriculum and Assessment Review. While its core mission, halving the disadvantage attainment gap at GCSE, is…

Linguistics and its place in the curriculum

Newsletter 242
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From subject to discipline: curriculum changes for GCSE English Language and the impact on Linguistics

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Editorial

Newsletter 242

Contents Editorial Susan Hunston Welcome to this issue of the English Association Newsletter, focusing on Language in English Studies. There are many perspectives on this topic, and they might be divided into two camps. One says that English as a discipline is centrally concerned with language and how it is used, whether that is the…