Teaching English as a Foreign Language, Second Edition

More advanced work
As pupils progress through the school, their work in English
will become more directed in two ways. First, if there is a
terminal examination, to some extent the work will be geared
to its demands. Second, as the pupils develop intellectually
they will, quite rightly, be more critical about the goals of their
English teaching, and it will become increasingly necessary to
provide not merely a general English course, but one which is
directed towards the needs in English that they are going to
have. This may mean orientating the English teaching towards
study skills and work at an advanced educational level, or it
may mean concentrating on English for technical subjects,
or—in second language situations—relating it to the work
being carried on in other subjects in the school.

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Learning English in the Secondary School
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To some extent younger pupils will accept English because
it is in the curriculum, but after adolescence they will need to
be persuaded that it has specific value to them, and this
means that the course must recognise the justice of their
concern.