1. SUMMARY

Introduction
Principles & Practices of the English Block (2)

1. Object of this Study
2. Aims and Results
3. Freedom of content.
4. Self-organisation by students.
5. Organic connection between activities.
6. Development of skills by practice.
7. Theoretical implications (Acquisition of language and other knowledge by experience rather than didacticism).
8. Teacher's rôle as advisor rather than instructor.
9. Non-linguistic aims: social skills - organisation
management of time
10. A comparison with Prabhu's Procedural Syllabus
11. What the former students have to say about it now.

Educationists, unlike the practitioners of other learned professions, perhaps do not pay enough attention to the effects of their activities. Doctors, engineers and architects, among other professionals, can be taken to task over the results of their activities and usually the person responsible can be identified. One reason why the results of teaching are so often imperfectly known is that it is not easy to get in touch with learners many years afterward. Buildings are always in public view and while they are in use many people can be affected by them. In time the opinions people form about them filter back to the designer.

(2) English Block: The Name. When this course was first devised it took place in a block of classrooms run together, and used teaching periods blocked in groups of two and three with teachers timetabled together. Hence the name.