Abstract
The author describes the varied teaching tasks of a beginning lecturer in the Scottish university system, and notes the challenges of encountering new and different forms of language: for students, the language of literary texts; for teachers, the language of management and audit. He concludes that whilst university lecturers may feel like ambassadors between the world of public service provision and the end users - or students - lecturers are nevertheless still trying to enable students to find the right language for their encounters with texts, their relationships with them, and even with the world at large.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 251 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Journal | Cambridge Quarterly |
| Volume | 34 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2005 |