A History of English Language Teaching

Contents......Page 7
Acknowledgements......Page 12
Note on spelling......Page 14
Preface......Page 15
PART ONE Practical language teaching to 1800......Page 17
1 The early years......Page 19
2 ‘Refugiate in a strange country’: the refugee language teachers in Elizabethan London......Page 28
3 Towards ‘The great and common world’......Page 48
4 Guy Midge and the second Huguenot exile......Page 68
5 The spread of English language teaching in Europe......Page 77
PART TWO On ‘fixing’ the language......Page 89
6 Introduction......Page 91
The work of John Hart, Chester Herald......Page 99
Richard Mulcaster's Elementarie......Page 105
Ben Jonson's English Grammar......Page 110
John Wallis's Grammatica Linguae Anglicanae......Page 114
9 ‘Things, words, and notions’......Page 118
Latin Schools and English Schools......Page 122
Swift's Proposal for a British Academy......Page 125
Towards Standard English......Page 126
PART THREE Language teaching in the nineteenth century......Page 143
Overview......Page 145
Introduction......Page 147
The grammar-translation method and the schools: some Anglo-German contrasts......Page 148
The grammar-translation method and adult language teaching: the ‘practical approach’ of Ahn and Ollendorff......Page 154
Overview......Page 163
‘All is in all’: Jean Joseph Jacotot......Page 166
The Rational Method of Claude Marcel......Page 168
Thomas Prendergast's ‘Mastery System’......Page 172
Francois Gouin and the ‘Series’......Page 177
Introduction......Page 185
The principles of reform......Page 187
The Klinghardt experiment......Page 189
The role of phonetics......Page 191
The work of Henry Sweet: an applied linguistic approach......Page 195
14 Natural methods of language teaching from Montaigne to Berlitz......Page 208
PART FOUR The making of a profession......Page 225
SECTION 1 Overview of English language teaching since 1900......Page 227
15 The teaching of English as a foreign or second language since 1900: a survey:......Page 228
SECTION 2 Essays in the history of English language teaching since 1900......Page 245
16 Harold E. Palmer:......Page 246
17 Choosing the right words:......Page 261
18 Old patterns and new directions:......Page 276
On rational and natural approaches to language teaching......Page 311
A chronology of English language teaching......Page 314
Biographical notes......Page 321
Appendix......Page 356
Bibliography......Page 380
Index......Page 401
牛津应用语言学丛书......Page 411