TY - JOUR
AU - Mathüna, Liam Mac
AB - 318 REVIEWS ROSALIND M. O. PRITCHARD (ed): Motivating the Majority: Modern Languages in Northern Ireland. London and Coleraine, Centre for Information on Language Teaching and Research/ University of Ulster, 1991. This publication contains some nine papers, written by language educationalists in Northern Ireland from rather disparate backgrounds. Not surprisingly, pride of attention goes to the mainstream teaching of Modern Continental languages. However, Motivating the Majority also considers the position of Irish in the school system as well as the rise of English as a second language, a relative newcomer to the language teaching scene. Accordingly, in the particular circumstances of Northern Ireland, this is a bold—and, to this reviewer's knowledge, unprecedented—enterprise, showing a praiseworthy broadness in conception and effectiveness in execution. It is to be hoped that the publication will encourage cross-fertilization between the three main strands of language- teaching, particularly as the articles themselves offer no indication that such has occurred in the past. The editor's Preface and her own key-note contribution, 'Motivating the Majority in a Divided School System' are the only attempts to offer a bird's-eye view of the overall state of language teaching in Northern Ireland, and they inevitably reflect the preponderant position of Modern 
TI - Reviews
JF - Applied Linguistics
DO - 10.1093/applin/14.3.318
DA - 1993-09-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/reviews-OB0010RN79
SP - 318
EP - 319
VL - 14
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -