A history of English language teaching

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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