A history of English language teaching

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A history of English language teaching

A.P.R. Howatt

Oxford University Press, 1984

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [364]-384) and index

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Description

This book traces the history of English language teaching right up to the origins of the communicative approach, ending with a discussion of the impact of applied linguistics on language teaching in both America and Britain.

Table of Contents

  • List of illustrations
  • Acknowledgements
  • Note on spelling
  • Preface
  • PART ONE: PRACTICAL LANGUAGE TEACHING TO 1800
  • 1. The early years
  • 2. 'Refugiate in a strange country': the refugee language teachers in Elizabethan London
  • 3. Towards 'The great and common world'
  • 4. Guy Miege and the second Huguenot exile
  • 5. The spread of English language teaching in Europe
  • PART TWO: ON 'FIXING' THE LANGUAGE
  • 6. Introduction
  • 7. Two proposals for orthographical reform in the sixteenth century
  • The work of John Hart, Chester Herald
  • Richard Mulcaster's Elementarie
  • 8. Early pedagogical grammars of English for foreign learners
  • Ben Jonson's English Grammar
  • John Wallis's Grammatica Linguae Anglicanae
  • 9. 'Things, words, and notions'
  • 10. The language 'fixed'
  • Latin Schools and English Schools
  • Swift's Proposal for a British Academy
  • Towards Standard English
  • PART THREE: LANGUAGE TEACHING IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
  • OVERVIEW
  • 11. The grammar-translation method
  • Introduction
  • The grammar-translation method and the schools: some Anglo-German contrasts
  • The grammar-translation method and adult language teaching: the 'practical approach' of Ahn and Ollendorff
  • 12. Individual reformers
  • Overview
  • 'All is in all': Jean Joseph Jacotot
  • The Rational Method of Claude Marcel
  • Thomas Prendergast's 'Mastery System'
  • Francois Gouin and the 'Series'
  • 13. The Reform Movement
  • Introduction
  • The principles of reform
  • The Klinghardt experiment
  • The role of phonetics
  • The work of Henry Sweet: an applied linguistic approach
  • 14. Natural methods of language teaching from Montaigne to Berlitz
  • PART FOUR: THE MAKING OF A PROFESSION
  • SECTION 1 Overview of English language teaching since 1900
  • 15. The teaching of English as a foreign or second language since 1900: a survey
  • Laying the foundations (1900-1922)
  • Research and development (1922-1939)
  • Consolidation (1945-1960)
  • Change and variation since 1960
  • SECTION 2 Essays in the history of English language teaching since 1900
  • 16. Harold E Palmer
  • Palmer's life and work
  • Palmer's methodology
  • 17. Choosing the right words
  • Michael West and the New Method
  • The Basic issue
  • Carnegie and after
  • 18. Old patterns and new directions
  • A S Hornby and the post-war consensus
  • The impact of applied linguistics
  • The notion of communication
  • Epilogue
  • On rational and natural approaches to language teaching
  • A chronology of English language teaching
  • Biographical notes
  • Appendix
  • 'Language teaching must start afresh!' A translation of Wilhelm Vietor's Der Sprachunterricht muss umkehren!
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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