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Chapter 11 - Myths and Moral Panics: how schools deal with language and why it matters


In Chapter 11 we talked about the lack of school focus on language as a subject and language awareness as an essential life skill. Here's a quiz which you can try doing yourself.

1. How far do you agree with the following comments?

  • I love grammar!
  • I don’t care about how language works, I just care about using it!
  • As long as you know the meaning of a word, that’s enough!
  • Linguistic terminology is no use to anybody except language specialists!

2. What do you know about the English ' th' sound and how to make it?

3. How do you explain this exchange? 

S1: Have you moved my keys?

S2: What do you mean?

S1: I’m sure I left them there by the phone.

S2: Well I haven’t touched them!

 How did you do? What other things would you like to have learned about language, that you didn't learn at school?