{"title":"What happened to knowledge about language?","authors":"J. Hodgson","doi":"10.1080/04250494.2023.2193383","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Recently, preparing a report for the Committee for Linguistics in Education, I made a content analysis of the linguistic terms used in the Ofsted (2022) Curriculum Research Review for English. The most surprising result of my analysis was the absence of the term “Knowledge about Language”. “KAL”, as it became known, was introduced in the first National Curriculum for English (Cox 1989) to signal the importance of linguistic knowledge in English Education. The report noted that in some schools “richer and broader work than we outline is already being done very successfully”:","PeriodicalId":44722,"journal":{"name":"English in Education","volume":"242 1","pages":"73 - 75"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0000,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"English in Education","FirstCategoryId":"95","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/04250494.2023.2193383","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Recently, preparing a report for the Committee for Linguistics in Education, I made a content analysis of the linguistic terms used in the Ofsted (2022) Curriculum Research Review for English. The most surprising result of my analysis was the absence of the term “Knowledge about Language”. “KAL”, as it became known, was introduced in the first National Curriculum for English (Cox 1989) to signal the importance of linguistic knowledge in English Education. The report noted that in some schools “richer and broader work than we outline is already being done very successfully”: