Language in the National Curriculum CD-Rom

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Language in the National

Curriculum CD-Rom

University of Nottingham, 2006,

35 [pounds sterling] available from Rebecca

Peck, School of English Studies,

University of Nottingham,

NG7 2RD

This CD-ROM contains the original printed, video and audio materials which were produced by the LINC (Language in the National Curriculum) project, an in-service teacher education programme funded by the UK government between 1989-1992. The aim of the project was to help teachers who had no formal experience of studying language deliver KAL (Knowledge About Language) which was being introduced in the original National Curriculum for English.

The project drew on highly respected academic linguists and teachers who worked in partnership to produce study units with specially commissioned video and audio resources. The LINC materials are associated with controversy as the government of …