Policies and practice in language learning and teaching : twentieth-century historical perspectives / edited by Sabine Doff and Richard Smith.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Doff, Sabine, editor.

Smith, Richard (Reader in Linguistics), editor.

Series:

Languages and culture in history.

Languages and culture in history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language and languages--Study and teaching--Government policy.

Language and languages.

Language policy--History--20th century.

Language policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (363 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2022.

Summary:

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 fourteen contributions highlight various contexts of language education in the twentieth 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?

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.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 15 Nov 2024).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-003-70156-6

90-485-5240-0

9781003701569

OCLC:

1350630704