Policies and Practice in Language Learning and Teaching

20th-century Historical Perspectives
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-041-18433-1
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 364 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 553 g

Reihe: Languages and Culture in History

This book brings together studies from Georgia, Germany, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Poland, South Korea, and the UK which explore links between policy and practice in language teaching in the twentieth century. The 14 contributions set out to expand the remit of ‘grounded history’ within the field of History of Language Learning and Teaching (HoLLT) by focusing on language teaching policies and linking these to practices and to contexts, situating policy formulation in particular contexts on the one hand, and exploring the relationship between policy and practice on the other. In this sense, the book shows how the theories, policy pronouncements, curricula, textbooks, and overall teaching approaches which tend to feature in most histories of language teaching always emerge from particular, researchable contexts, and, in the other direction, are interpreted and responded to in practice, again, in particular contexts. In this way, it hopes to contribute a context-based perspective that highlights diversity of practices, in opposition to received views that language teaching methodology is ‘universal’ and context-free.

Zielgruppe

Academic

Autoren/Hrsg.

Doff, Sabine

Smith, Richard

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Allgemeine Didaktik Literatur, Deutsch, Fremdsprachen (Unterricht & Didaktik)
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Geschichte der Pädagogik, Richtungen in der Pädagogik
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Bildungssystem Bildungspolitik, Bildungsreform

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Stefan Kipf

3 Teaching Schiller

Philological Discourse and Educational Practice at Schools of Higher Education in the German Kaiserreich—The Example of Wallenstein Norman Ächtler

4 Writing about German Literature

Examination and Text Forms in the French Occupation Zone, 1945–1949

Sabine Reh

III METHOD

5 Practice Escaping an Ideological Grip

How the CLT Agenda Slipped through the Cracks of Error Taxonomies

Joanna Pfingsthorn

6 “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

7 The Quest for Communicative Competence in Foreign

Language Learning in English Schools, 1968–2010

John Daniels

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

Silvia Pireddu

10 Yoshisaburô Okakura and the Practical Value of the Study of

English in Secondary Schools in Early Twentieth-century Japan

Kohei Uchimaru

11 The British Juggernaut

ESP Practice and Purpose in the 1970s

Shona Whyte

V CONTEXT

12 Sociocultural, Political, and Educational Aspects of Teaching

English in Polish Schools in the Interwar Period (1918–1939)

Irmina Kotlarska

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

Sharon Harvey

15 Social Attitudes toward ‘School English’ in Classroom Practice in South Korea from 1970 to the Present

Robert J. Fouser

Über Autor(innen)

Sabine Doff has been Full Professor of English Language Education at the Department of Language and Literary Studies, University of Bremen, Germany since 2009. Her main interests cover the historiography of language education in and beyond Europe, curriculum studies, culture and cultural learning in the language classroom, inclusive language education and content and language integrated learning.

Richard Smith is a Professor of English Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics at the University of Warwick, UK. He is the founder and joint coordinator of the International Association of Applied Linguistics (AILA) Research Network on History of Language Learning and Teaching, and he has published widely in this field (including, with N. Mclelland, The History of Language Learning and Teaching (3 volumes, Legenda, 2018) and, with T. Giesler, Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching: Historical Perspectives (Benjamins, in press).