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The history of teaching English as a foreign language, from a British and European perspective
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Howatt, Anthony P. R. and Smith, Richard (2014) The history of teaching English as a foreign language, from a British and European perspective. Language & History, 57 (1). pp. 75-95. doi:10.1179/1759753614Z.00000000028 ISSN 1759-7536.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/1759753614Z.00000000028
Abstract
This article offers an overview of historical developments in EFL (English as a Foreign Language) teaching methodology over the last 250 years. Being based on periods rather than methods, it is intended as an alternative kind of account to the ‘method mythologies’ which have tended to dominate professional thinking for the last thirty years. Thus, we structure our account according to four periods characterized by main concerns and overall approaches, revealing greater continuity and overlap among teaching theories and practices than in accounts which accept discrete, bounded ‘methods’ as the primary unit of organization. Confronting a conception of the past typically presented as universal but in fact reflecting a USA-centric perspective, our alternative, UK-focused and, to some extent, European version of history asserts the value of explicit geographical contextualization and indicates a new direction for the history of EFL teaching — ‘beyond method’, and in multiple locations.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Subjects: | L Education > LC Special aspects of education | ||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Applied Linguistics | ||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | English language -- Study and teaching -- Foreign speakers | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Language & History | ||||||
Publisher: | Maney Publishing | ||||||
ISSN: | 1759-7536 | ||||||
Official Date: | 2014 | ||||||
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Volume: | 57 | ||||||
Number: | 1 | ||||||
Number of Pages: | 21 | ||||||
Page Range: | pp. 75-95 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.1179/1759753614Z.00000000028 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) |
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