Editor: Peter Garrett (University of Cardiff)
Review editor: Terry Shortall (University of Birmingham)
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Volume: 11 Number: 2 Page: 100–113
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The Space Between Shared Understandings of the Teaching of Grammar in English and French to Year 7 Learners: Student Teachers Working Collaboratively
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Karen Turner and Anne Turvey
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We report a small-scale research project in which an English and a French student teacher work collaboratively to develop their personal knowledge and understanding of grammar and its role in teaching both
subjects to 11-year-old learners in an English comprehensive school. The project begins with university-based discussions about the role of grammar in language learning as expressed in a number of government
documents and professional journals. It then continues in school where the students observed lessons given by experienced teachers and by each other. Ways in which the cross-language focus beneficially
influenced their classroom practice are suggested. The article discusses a number of issues arising from the project about planning for language development and teaching about language across the curriculum
and we make some modest proposals for a way forward within government policy, which remains separatist.
© Multilingual Matters 2002
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