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Linguistics in a Primary School
Author(s) -
Denham Kristin
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
language and linguistics compass
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.619
H-Index - 44
ISSN - 1749-818X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1749-818x.2007.00017.x
Subject(s) - curriculum , linguistics , applied linguistics , pedagogy , mathematics education , psychology , sociology , philosophy
In this article, I discuss a linguistics course that I have been teaching for the past 3 years in a multiage primary school classroom. This experience has led to work in other schools, has changed the way I teach introductory linguistics courses for teachers, and has led to the development of materials and curricula for use in K‐12 classrooms. I hope the sharing of these experiences will help to effect real change in the way in which knowledge about language is taught in K‐12 classrooms in the USA.