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Cushing, Ian; Helks, Marie – English in Education, 2021
This article reports on data generated from focus groups held with primary and secondary school students in which they were asked about experiences of grammar teaching and testing in the context of post-2010 reforms in England. Data from these focus groups were triangulated with a bricolage of other data, including fieldnotes, teacher surveys,…
Descriptors: Grammar, English Instruction, Teaching Methods, Language Tests
Cushing, Ian – Literacy, 2019
Grammar is a key focus of current UK national curriculum policy, at both primary and secondary school level. But grammar policy across these levels is incongruous: at primary level, policy is largely prescriptive, framing language as a system of constraints and rules, whereas at secondary level, policy is much more geared towards descriptive,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grammar, English Instruction, National Curriculum
Cushing, Ian – English in Education, 2020
This paper explores the application of texture and textual attractors within a cognitive stylistic pedagogy for English teachers. Texture, defined as the feeling of building and experiencing a fictional world, is here taken up as a facilitative way of thinking about how reading, language, experience and cognition operate in the classroom. On the…
Descriptors: English Teachers, Teaching Methods, Grammar, Schemata (Cognition)
Cushing, Ian – English in Education, 2018
This article draws on research into using reader-response theory as a way of thinking about teaching grammar and poetry in the English classroom. Framing my discussion around world-based models of reader-response such as Transactional Theory (Rosenblatt 1938, 1978) and Text World Theory (Gavins 2007; Werth 1999), I argue that this approach is…
Descriptors: Reader Response, Poetry, Teaching Methods, Grammar