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 contributions highlight various contexts of language education in the 20th century, combining inside.out (‘emic’) perspectives, drawing on teachers’/learners’ experience within the classroom, and outside.in (‘etic’) perspectives, looking at external factors such as the curriculum or education policies and considering how teachers and learners respond to these. Each chapter starts from one perspective, yet at the same time takes into account the reciprocal effects between the two directions of movement (inside.out / outside.in). This volume asks, how has the practice of language learning and teaching been influenced by policies and context – and vice versa?
- Cover
- Table of Contents
- I. INTRODUCTION
- 1. Valorizing Practice in Twentieth-century Language Learning and Teaching
- Sabine Doff and Richard Smith
- II. CONTENT
- 2. Ovid’s Metamorphoses Are Read Everywhere!?
- Historical Remarks on a Classical Text in Latin Teaching in Germany
- 3. Teaching Schiller
- Philological Discourse and Educational Practice at Schools of Higher Education in the German Kaiserreich—The Example of Wallenstein
- 4. Writing about German Literature
- Examination and Text Forms in the French Occupation Zone, 1945–1949
- III. METHOD
- 5. Practice Escaping an Ideological Grip
- How the CLT Agenda Slipped through the Cracks of Error Taxonomies
- 6. “Teachers May Feel that They Should …”
- Attempts to Align the Intended and the Taught Curriculum in 1980s Bremen Manuals for Communicative Language Teaching
- 7. The Quest for Communicative Competence in Foreign Language Learning in English Schools, 1968–2010
- 8. Teaching English Writing in the Twentieth Century Seen through Handbooks for Mother-tongue and Foreign Speakers
- Laura Pinnavaia and Annalisa Zanola
- IV. AIMS
- 9. ‘Too Much Workload in Technical Schools!’
- Luigi Pavia and the Teaching of English in Italian Technical Schools on the Threshold of the Twentieth Century
- 10. Yoshisaburô Okakura and the Practical Value of the Study of English in Secondary Schools in Early Twentieth-century Japan
- 11. The British Juggernaut
- ESP Practice and Purpose in the 1970s
- V. CONTEXT
- 12. Sociocultural, Political, and Educational Aspects of Teaching English in Polish Schools in the Interwar Period (1918–1939)
- 13. English as a Foreign Language in Georgia
- From Past to Present
- Ekaterine Shaverdashvili and Nino Chkhikvadze
- 14. Language Teacher Education Improvements Would Valorize Practice
- A Recent History of Intercultural Language Teaching in Aotearoa/New Zealand
- 15. Social Attitudes toward ‘School English’ in Classroom Practice in South Korea from 1970 to the Present
- Index
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