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The EC
The LAGB created its Education Committee on 7 April 2000 to act on its behalf in educational matters. See below for more details.
EC Activities
- Services to the LAGB:
- [for information] A benchmark statement for English Language.
- A 'grammar audit' of incoming undergraduates' knowledge of grammatical metalanguage
- A survey, with web links, of recent developments in language education
- Linguistics at School sessions
- A webpage for information on the Knowledge About Language (KAL) of incoming undergraduates.
- A register of 'outreaching linguists' who have experience of outreach work with schools
- Some statistical trends in England's language education
- Reports to the LAGB
- Reports from the Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies.
- Reports from EC meetings with external bodies
- Some facts and figures about A-level English Language
- A guide to the career options in school teaching for linguistics graduates
- Information about the Linguistics Olympiads, both national and international
- Resources for teachers:
- A collection of material on the history of English teaching
- A collection of material from university classes on linguistics or English language - videos, handouts, etc - to help would-be undergraduates to know what to expect.
- A list of courses for teachers and pupils doing A/AS-level English language.
- The LAGB Language fact sheets
- Phoneme-grapheme correspondences in different UK accents.
- Responses to official consultations
- (2010) Comments on the White Paper on education.
- (2007)
Should we comment on the draft criteria for GCSE in Foreign Languages?
- the draft criteria
- a summary of the relevant parts of the criteria, compared with the present (2000) version
- Comments on the draft programmes of study for English at KS3 and KS4
- Second Submission to the Dearing Inquiry into GCSE Languages.
- (2006) Submission to the Dearing Inquiry into GCSE Languages.
- (2005)Responses to the QCA inquiry "English 21":
- On "An entitlement to creativity?": our response
- On "Grammar: where next in English teaching?": our response
- Our general response to the whole inquiry.
- A paper on narrative as a contribution to future developments.
- A paper on the Knowledge About Language needed by teachers in 2015
- (2002) Comments on the DfES Green Paper '14-19' and the related paper 'Language Learning'. (You can also download extracts of '14-19' and the whole of 'Language Learning' in .rtf format.)
- (2002) Successful submission to the AHRB in the competition for six ring-fenced PhD studentships per year for the linguistics of the main foreign languages.