A history of English language teaching
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A history of English language teaching
(Oxford applied linguistics)
Oxford University Press, 1994
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Bibliography: p. [364]-384
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
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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