Government and professional documents on language education
Curriculum documents
- 2013 National Curriculum for England
- 2014 National Curriculum for England: Key Stage 4 English
- 2014 Subject content for A-level English Language
- 2014 Subject content for A-level foreign languages
- 2013 Subject content for GCSE English Language and English Literature
- 2014 Subject content for GCSE modern foreign languages
- 2007 National Curriculum for England:
- 1999 National Curriculum
- The National Curriculum. Handbook for Primary Teachers in England.
- The National Curriculum. Handbook for Secondary Teachers in England. (revised 2004)
- 2000 Grammar for Writing (Support for teachers, checked by a linguist.)
- 2000 Revised glossary for the National Literacy Strategy (pages 69-96) (LAGB members revised the original (1998) definitions, but not the terminology, so it includes ‘connective’ and ‘complex/compound sentence’)
- 2003 Secondary Foreign Languages
- 1995 National Curriculum
- 1990 The first National Curriculum
Reports and discussion documents
[See also the collection of reports on the CLiE website.]
- 2019 Breadmore, Helen, Emma Vardy, Anna Cunningham, Rosa Kwok & Julia Carroll. 2019. Literacy Development: Evidence Review. London: Education Endowment Foundation.
- 2019 Quigley, Alex & Robbie Coleman. 2019. Improving literacy in secondary schools. Guidance report. London: Education Endowment Foundation.
- 2016 (building on reports from 1980, 1993, 1994 and 2004) Aspects of Writing (research by Cambridge Assessment into vocabulary, spelling, punctuation and grammar in GCSE English scripts)
- The 2016 report
- The launch event, with links to the earlier reports
- 1990 ‘Language awareness and foreign language taster courses’ (HMI report)
- 1989 Cox Report on English
- 1988 Kingman Report on English
- 1987 ‘Modern Foreign Languages’ (discussion document)
- 1980 ‘Modern languages in further education’ (discussion document)
- 1977 ‘Modern languages in comprehensive schools’ (discussion document)
- 1975 Bullock Report on English
- 1927 Memorandum on the Teaching of English (issued by the Incorporated Association of Assistant Masters in Secondary Schools)
- 1921 Newbolt Report on English
- 1913 Report of the Joint Committee on Grammatical Terminology