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15 Sep 2021 20:44

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The CLiE website now hosts an excellent position paper on gaps in primary school teachers' knowledge about language:

https://clie.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Bridging-the-KAL-gaps.pdf

Willem Hollmann has written a spin-off piece for The Conversation focusing more specifically on knowledge about grammar. Please do share this widely among your networks:

https://theconversation.com/grammar-still-matters-but-teachers-are-struggling-to-teach-it-166292