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Smith, Richard (2021) A brief history of ELT Journal. ELT Journal, 75 (1). pp. 4-13. doi:10.1093/elt/ccaa065 ISSN 0951-0893.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1093/elt/ccaa065
Abstract
This article traces the 75-year history of ELT Journal, using this as a means to cast light on trends in ELT over the same period and to acknowledge various sources of thought and practice. In the first part (1946–1971), the focus is on how the journal contributed to the establishment of a methodological orthodoxy which was relatively unaffected by academic applied linguistics but which drew sustenance, rather, from a tradition of theorized experience and practical linguistics dating back to pre-war times. In the second part (1971–1996), the focus is on tensions between this orthodoxy and newer ‘communicative’ ideas—still, though, with an emphasis on practical experience as well as academic insight, while the final phase (1996–2021) is viewed as being characterized, above all, by attempts to ‘decentre’ away from mainly UK-based expertise and towards an opening-up of professional discourse to previously neglected voices. Viewing the history of the journal in this manner reveals continuities as well as shifts in perception of how English should be defined, whose voices ‘count’ in the field, and of the value or otherwise of research and theory in relation to practical concerns.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Subjects: | L Education > LB Theory and practice of education P Language and Literature > PE English |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Applied Linguistics | ||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | English language -- Study and teaching -- Foreign speakers -- Periodicals -- History, Second language acquisition | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | ELT Journal | ||||||
Publisher: | Oxford University Press | ||||||
ISSN: | 0951-0893 | ||||||
Official Date: | 8 January 2021 | ||||||
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Volume: | 75 | ||||||
Number: | 1 | ||||||
Page Range: | pp. 4-13 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.1093/elt/ccaa065 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced version of an article accepted for publication in ELT Journal following peer review. The version of record Richard Smith, A brief history of ELT Journal, ELT Journal, 2021;, ccaa065, is available online at:https://doi.org/10.1093/elt/ccaa065 | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
Copyright Holders: | © The Author(s) 2021. Published by Oxford University Press; all rights reserved. | ||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 29 January 2021 | ||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 8 January 2023 | ||||||
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