Question: What is an
authentic English classroom?
Answer: The author
defines an authentic English language arts classroom as “…work that is, in some
way, meaningful beyond the context of school.”
Then she asks her methods course
students the following questions about their lesson plans: What is the point of
this activity? What are the students’ purposes for undertaking this activity?
Comment: Good questions for any activity used in an
English class. RayS.
Title: “In Search of
the Authentic English Classroom: Facing the Schoolishness of School.” Anne
Elrod Whitney. English Education (October 2011), 51-62.
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