Is English going to the dogs? Part 1
We make lots of judgments about the ways in which people use English, don’t we? Isn’t it, one way or another, part of our job as English teachers to do this? We may suggest that we are well placed to make such judgments; after all, we went to university, attained a degree or degrees, and spent further time training to be teachers. It seems we have a strong, if hardly irrefutable, case. English teachers are not, of...