English in the National Curriculum: A simple redraft or a major rewrite?

Curriculum Journal

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 187-199

  Marshall, Bethan ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Critical literacy; Scottish and Welsh curricula; Standard English; Synthetic and analytic phonics; The canon

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960335574     PISSN: 09585176     EISSN: 14693704     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09585176.2011.574928     Document Type: Article

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