A History of ELT, Second Edition
A. P. R. Howatt
With H. G. Widdowson
A history of English Language Teaching that takes the reader from the Renaissance to the present day. The book covers all the important phases of the history from a global perspective. It has been brought up-to-date with three new chapters, including a final chapter by Henry Widdowson.
- Collana: Oxford Applied Linguistics
- ISBN: 978-0-19-442185-0
- Pagine: 438
- Binding: Paperback
- Dimensioni: 234x155 mm
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The core foundations of applied linguistics have long been located in exploring language as it is used in the world and in finding solutions to language-based problems. Modern applied linguistics is interdisciplinary and wide-ranging, being informed by research spanning psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, education, corpus linguistics, cognitive linguistics, and other areas of the cognitive, learning, and information sciences.
The goal of the OUP Applied Linguistics Series is to influence the quality of language education through publishing and disseminating relevant scholarship and research.
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- Substantially revised and updated.
- New Introduction.
- New sections on the British Empire, and 1970-present day.
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The series attracts single or co-authored volumes from authors researching at the cutting edge of this dynamic field of interdisciplinary enquiry. The titles range from books that make such developments accessible to the non-specialist reader to those which explore in depth their relevance for the way language is to be conceived as a subject, and how courses and classroom activities are to be designed. As such, these books not only extend the field of applied linguistics itself and lend an additional significance to its enquiries, but also provide an indispensable professional foundation for language pedagogy and its practice.
The scope of the series includes:- second language acquisition
- bilingualism and multi/plurilingualism
- language pedagogy and teacher education
- testing and assessment
- language planning and policy
- language internationalization
- technology-mediated communication
- discourse-, conversation-, and contrastive-analysis
- pragmatics
- stylistics
- lexicography
- translation
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List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
Note on spelling
Note on terminology
Preface to the second edition
Introduction
Part One: 1400-1800
Section 1: Practical language teaching
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 Miège and the second Huguenot exile
5 The spread of English language teaching in Europe
Section 2: On 'fixing' the language
6 An overview: 1550-1800
7 Two proposals for orthographical reform in the 1500s
The work of John Hart, Chester Herald
Richard Mulcaster's Elementarie
8 Two 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 Two: 1800-1900
Introduction
English language teaching in the EmpireEnglish language teaching in Europe
Section 1: English language teaching in the Empire
11 Teaching English overseas: similarities and contrasts
Reports on specific territories
Teaching English in India
Conclusion
Section 2: English language teaching in Europe
12 The grammar-translation method
The origins of the method
Language teaching in schools: some Anglo-German contrasts
Language learning by adults: the 'practical approach' of Ahn and Ollendorff
13 Individual reformers
Overview
'All is in all': Jean Joseph Jacotot
The Rational Method of Claude Marcel
Thomas Prendergast's 'Mastery System'
François Gouin and the 'Series'
14 The Reform Movement
The scope of the Movement
The principles of reform
The Klinghardt experiment
The role of phonetics
The work of Henry Sweet: an applied linguistic approach
15 'Natural methods of language teaching' from Montaigne to Berlitz
Learning a language through 'constant conversation'
Rousseau and Pestalozzi
The origins of the Direct Method
Part Three: 1900 to the present day
Section 1: English language teaching since 1900: the making of a profession
16 The teaching of English as a foreign or second language: a survey
Phase 1 1900-46: Laying the foundations
Phase 2 1946-70: Consolidation and renewal
Phase 3 1970 to the present day: Language and communication
Section 2 Aspects of English language teaching since 1900
17 Harold Palmer and the teaching of spoken language
Palmer's life and work
Palmer's methodology
18 Choosing the right words
Michael West and the teaching of reading
The Basic issue
Carnegie and after
19 Old patterns and new directions
The establishment of ELT and the post-war consensus
A.S. Hornby and the teaching of structural patterns
The early impact of applied linguistics (1941-60)
The end of the Empire
New directions in language teaching in the 1960s
20 The notion of communication
The communicative approach
Communication and language learning
The Threshold Level Project
English for Special/Specific Purposes (ESP)
The Bangalore Project
Conclusion
21 A perspective on recent trends
by H. G. Widdowson
A chronology of English language teaching
Bibliography
Index
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- '..It's a stunning read...If I were pressed to draw up a list of ten ELT titles with which to spend a year on a desert island this one would easily some into my top three.' - Wayne Trotman, EL Gazette, January 2005
- 'The volume remains the single most authoritative and comprehensive account of the history of English language teaching, and will surely continue to serve as a prime source for the profession for many years to
come...This is a work of
considerable research and scholarship characterized by rigour and balance, comprehensive yet uncluttered.' - Rani Rubdy, Director of Graduate Programmes, Institute for English Language Education, Assumption University, Bangkok.
- 'I found this book extremely readable...This book is fascinating, packed with human interest stories about the people who shaped our profession, while at the same time giving a clear explanation of the theoretical perspectives
that inspired them.' -
IATEFL Issues, February/March 2005
- 'To sum up, this fine book should be required reading for all members of the profession, if by profession, we include all the personages and movements that have made us what we are.' - BAAL Reviews, 2005
