@article{discovery10109362,
         journal = {English in Australia},
          number = {1},
           title = {The creative sociability of English classrooms and 'the true nature of stories'},
            year = {2020},
           pages = {6--13},
            note = {This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher's terms and conditions.},
          volume = {55},
             url = {https://www.aate.org.au/documents/item/2337},
          author = {Yandell, J},
        abstract = {In currently dominant accounts, English as a school subject, its content and
processes, are construed as an induction into a well-defined, already-established disciplinary
discourse or set of discourses. In an attempt to challenge this version of English, I present some
examples of autobiographical writing by secondary students and I tell the story of an observed
lesson. From these instances of practice, a different picture of English emerges - one where the
English classroom might be regarded as a place of literary sociability, where students enter into
dialogue with each other and with the literature that they read, and where the complex challenges
entailed in any attempt to represent experience in words is properly acknowledged.}
}