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When this book was in its earliest planning stages, my co-editor suggested that, since my work has been largely on Middle English lexis, I should contribute a chapter on teaching Chaucer’s language. At the time, this seemed a reasonable suggestion; what emerged from my investigation, however, is that Chaucer is rarely approached via the language or in a linguistics context, and that teaching Chaucer’s language is generally mentioned only in passing in the descriptions of the most innovative teaching projects that were described in the session at the New Chaucer Society congress and are described in this volume. All this has led me to believe that the idea of teaching the language of Chaucer in British universities in the twenty-first century is one that needs to be problematised rather than described.
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Sylvester, L. (2007). Teaching the Language of Chaucer. In: Ashton, G., Sylvester, L. (eds) Teaching Chaucer. Teaching the New English. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230627512_6
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