CLIE: Past

1. CLIE: Past Dick Hudson February 2012

2. Archives • We have an archive of minutes etc • But there are significant gaps: • #5-15 (1979-83) • #27-43 (1987-93) • #49-52 (1994-6) • If you can fill them, please do!

3. The beginnings • 1978 (July): LAGB/BAAL seminar • 'Linguistics and the teaching of language in schools' • 1978 (Oct): 'Language Steering Committee' set up by LAGB and BAAL, to include reps from: • NATE • DES (Dept of Education and Science)

4. CLIE is born • 1978 (Nov): Meeting #1 of the LSC • 'Language Steering Committee' • 1979 (Nov): Meeting #4 of the LSC • ?????: 'LSC' changed to 'CLIE' • 1983? (Nov): Meeting #16 of CLIE

5. People • 1978: Mike Riddle, John Rudd • 1983, 1991: Connie Cullen • 1985: Tom Bloor • 1996: Ros Ivanic • 2000: Ewa Jaworska • 2001: Sue Barry

6. Representation expanded • Association for Language Awareness • Association for Language Learning • British Association for Applied Linguistics • British Dyslexia Association • British Council • British Library • Centre for Information on Language Teaching • Department for Education • English Association • Linguistics Association of Great Britain • Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies (Linguistics Specialist Advisory Group) • National Association of Advisers in English • National Association for Language Development in the Curriculum • National Association for the Teaching of English • National Association for the Teaching of English and Community Languages to Adults • Training and Development Agency for Schools • United Kingdom Literacy Association

7. Activities • Meetings • 'keeping our fingers on the national pulse' • Reaction • Consultations • Proaction • Publications • Projects

8. The national pulse • 1983: A-level English Language • 1988: Kingman recommends KAL • 1990: First National Curriculum for English • 1997: National Literacy Strategy • 2002: Languages for All … • 2005: Primary languages introduced • 2013: Another new National Curriculum!!

9. The uniqueness of CLIE We are still the only body in the UK to bring together the whole of language education: • Basic literacy • L1 English • FL (Foreign Languages) • EAL (English as an Additional Language) • (Community languages)

10. Launching our logo! But also building bridges between English and FL, etc.

11. Meetings • CLIE meetings • sharing information • outside meetings • NCLE • QCA • Language Alliance • etc.

12. Reaction: responses to … • 1987: "English from 5-16" • 1993: revised National Curriculum for English • 2004: Tomlinson Committee on 14-19 reform. • 2007: document on Functional skills. • 2009: Rose Review of the Primary Curriculum. • 2011: consultation on the National Curriculum • 2011: proposed Year 1 Phonics Screening Check • etc.

13. Effects • ? • Linguistics is recognised as relevant • CLIE is known to many educational policy-makers • Some documents have been improved to avoid prescriptivism

14. Proaction: publications • 1981: "Some issues on which linguists can agree" (Hudson and Brookes) • 1983-1998: CLIE working papers • edited by Tom Bloor • 2010: A report on the subject knowledge of PGCE English applicants. • 2010: A statement about Standard English. • etc.

15. Proaction: projects • Survey: Does a Linguistics BA qualify for English PGCE? • 1994: postal survey of tutors (Cameron, Perera) • 2006: email survey of tutors (Hudson) • 2010: a funded project (Shortis, Blake) • 2009: created UK Linguistics Olympiad committee