Some Thoughts on Language in the Middle School Years.

Abstract

The notion of the middle school years' suggests a stage that is in between; one that is neither a beginning nor an end, but is in some sense transitional-and yet (since we are giving it a name) one that has some special features of its own, distinct from what precedes it and what follows. The question that often arises, in discussions of language education, is whether the middle school years can be recognised as a definable stage in a child's development of language.