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Learning and language : some problems and some possible solutions

Aird, Elizabeth. (University of Melbourne, 1990)

The Language Across The Curriculum movement of the seventies seems to have had little impact on current teaching practice. The first chapter of this pilot study,Centres on the theoretical basis and historical background of this movement. It also surveys learning and . obstacles to it. Teachers limit- learning by limiting the scope for students to explore ideas. The second chapter suggests teaching strategies to maximise the opportunity for students to discuss their work and hence. examine ideas in detail. They have an opportunity to theorise and experiment with their thoughts. The third chapter is based on four interviews with. a range of teachers. The subjects discussed were their teaching styles, the reasons for them and their opinions of group work. The teachers were chosen on the basis of their experience as teachers and their attitudes to group work. My conclusions are that teacher training should once agaln feature the methodology advocated by the LATC movement. There is also a need for further study of the relationship between personality and teaching styles with reference to this kind of strategy, and of teacher and student attitudes to group work.