Policies and practice in language learning and teaching : 20th-century historical perspectives /

In contrast with other works on the history of language learning and teaching, this book is innovative in assigning a much more important role to practice and to the reciprocal relationship of policies and practice (rather than investigating top.down processes from policies to practice). The 14 cont...

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Other Authors: Doff, Sabine (Editor), Smith, Richard (Reader in Linguistics) (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2022]
Series:Languages and culture in history.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Valorizing practice in twentieth-century language learning and teaching / Sabine Doff and Richard Smith
  • Ovid's Metamorphoses are read everywhere!? Historical remarks on a classical text in Latin teaching in Germany / Stefan Kipf
  • Teaching Schiller : philological discourse and educational practice at schools of higher education in the German Kaiserreich
  • the example of Wallenstein / Norman Ächtler
  • Writing about German literature : examination and text forms in the French occupation zone, 1945-1949 / Sabine Reh
  • Practice escaping an ideological grip : how the CLT agenda slipped through the cracks of error taxonomies / Joanna Pfingsthorn
  • "Teachers may feel that they should ..." : attempts to align the intended and the taught curriculum in 1980s Bremen manuals for communicative language teaching / Tim Giesler
  • The quest for communicative competence in foreign language learning in English schools, 1968-2010 / John Daniels
  • Teaching English writing in the twentieth century seen through handbooks for mother-tongue and foreign speakers / Laura Pinnavaia and Annalisa Zanola
  • 'too much workload in technical schools!' : Luigi Pavia and the teaching of English in Italian technical schools on the threshold of the twentieth century / Silvia Pireddu
  • Yoshisaburô Okakura and the practical value of the study of English in secondary schools in early twentieth-century Japan / Kohei Uchimaru
  • The British juggernaut : ESP practice and purpose in the 1970s / Shona Whyte
  • Sociocultural, political, and educational aspects of teaching English in Polish schools in the interwar period (1918-1939) / Irmina Kotlarska
  • English as a foreign language in Georgia : from past to present / Ekaterine Shaverdashvili and Nino Chkhikvadze
  • Language teacher education improvements would valorize practice : a recent history of intercultural language teaching in Aotearoa/New Zealand / Sharon Harvey
  • Social attitudes toward 'school English' in classroom practice in South Korea from 1970 to the present / Robert J. Fouser.