The contribution of spoken language to outcomes for education and beyond, including
attainment, wellbeing and empowerment is long‐established and has recently become more …

In this article I argue that current government policy for teaching literacy in schools in
England is part of a broader ideology of homogeneity which is visible in other dominant …

Human Speech has often been presented as the crucial line dividing humanity from animals,
with Literacy then entering in as the fulfiller of human destiny, the redeemer from primitive …

This paper considers recent developments in English education policy as, confirming
promises made in the 2016 White Paper, Educational Excellence Everywhere, schools are …

Schools have often not recognised the basis for literacy that oracy provides, but with the
issuing of the recent package for speaking and listening to schools, Speaking, Listening …

This chapter has three sections. The first develops a perspective on the 'new
capitalism'(Gee, Hull, & Lankshear 1996) and its implications for schools, societies, and the …

This chapter explores what happens when the notions of linguistic capital and cultural
capital (Bourdieu, 1982/1991) are teamed with the notions of peer social capital …

I would like to outline briefly some of the conceptual apparatus that is becoming familiar in
the New Literacy Studies, to extend it and to deal with some of the problems it has raised; …

There is growing evidence that student contributions via classroom talk (oracy) are subject to
social judgements premised on cultural evaluation of accent and dialect, with particular …

Twenty years as a scholar in the field of literacy studies, thirty years as a writing teacher, and
I have finally given up trying to put literacy in its place. Not that I didn't work hard to keep …