This book provides an exhaustive historical account of how the English language was taught and learnt in Spain over two centuries. Since its origins back in 1769 with the publication of San Joaquín de Pedro's 'Gramática inglesa' until 1970, a key year in European and World affairs. A period of time ample enough to accurately gauge the impact of this social phenomenon against the backdrop of social and political unrest which looms over the whole period but also with scientific breakthroughs that shaped our modern world. The history of ELT runs parallel to those events adopting diffferent mainstrem trends ranging from the Traditional or Latin-like approach to foreign language teaching to the so-called Grammar-Translation Method and the Direct or Oral Method. However, special attention is also given to 'minor' trends such as Ecclecticism which constantly overlaps the mainstream trends. This book is the first to take a close look at how the English language was taught and learnt in Spain for a two-century period when the French language was the Spaniard's first choice when it came to learning a foreign language.
- Cover
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: The historiography of FLT
- The significance of the historiography of foreign language teaching
- Approaches
- Publications on the history of foreign language teaching in Spain
- The historiography of ELT in Spain: A retrospective
- Methodology of the present work
- 1. The inception of ELT in Spain (1769-1850)
- 1.1. Political and socio-cultural framework
- 1.2. The socio-cultural context
- 1.3. European FLT framework.
- 1.4. The origins of ELT in Spain: where and how
- 1.5. Conclusion
- 2. ELT in Spain (1850-1910), further development
- 2.1. Introduction
- 2.2. Spain
- 2.3. Conclusion
- 3. ELT in Spain between 1910 and 1970
- 3.1. Introduction
- 3.2. The new actors in ELT: Britain and the USA
- 3.3. Europe and Spain in the 1950s and 1960s: So close and so far away
- 3.4. The Spanish tradition
- 3.5. ELT in Spain between 1910 and 1970: The private sector
- 3.6. Overview of English manuals in Spain between 1910 and 1970
- 3.7. Teaching English beyond manuals: the exceptional cases of Juan Carrión and Patricia Shaw Fairman
- 3.8. Conclusion
- Appendix I
- Appendix II
- Author biography
- Index
- List of Figures
- Table 1: English manuals published in Spain between 1769 and 1899.
- Table 2: English manuals published in Spain between 1900 and 1970.
- Figure 1: Extract from Henry Mac Veigh’s Curso de inglés.
- Figure 2: Extract from John Shaw’s Curso de ingles.
- Figure 3: Extract from Eduardo Benot’s English course.
- Figure 4: Extract from Arturo Cuyàs’s bidirectional bilingual English-Spanish dictionary.
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