A history of English language teaching / A.P.R. Howatt with H.G. Widdowson.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 380-405) and index.

Introduction -- Part One. 1400-1800 -- Section 1. Practical language teaching -- 1. The early years -- 2. 'Refugiate in a strange country': the refugee language teachers in Elizabethan London -- 3. Towards 'the great and common world' -- 4. Guy Miege and the second Huguenot exile -- 5. The spread of English language teaching in Europe -- Section 2. On 'fixing' the language -- 6. An overview: 1550-1800 -- 7. Two proposals for orthographical reform in the 1500s -- The work of John Hart, Chester Herald -- Richard Mulcaster's Elementarie -- 8. Two pedagogical grammars of English for foreign learners -- Ben Jonson's English Grammar -- John Wallis's Grammatica Linguae Anglicanae -- 9. 'Things, words and notions' -- 10. The language 'fixed' -- Latin schools and English schools -- Swift's proposal for a British Academy -- Towards Standard English -- Part Two. 1800-1900 -- Introduction -- English language teaching in the Empire -- English language teaching in Europe -- Section 1. English language teaching in the Empire -- 11. Teaching English overseas: similarities and contrasts -- Reports on specific territories -- Teaching English in India -- Conclusion -- Section 2. English language teaching in Europe -- 12. The grammar-translation method -- The origins of the method -- Language teaching in schools: some Anglo-German contrasts -- Language learning by adults: the 'practical approach' of Ahn and Ollendorff -- 13. Individual reformers -- Overview -- The Rational Method of Claude Marcel -- Thomas Prendergast's 'Mastery System' -- Francois Gouin and the 'series' -- 14. The Reform Movement -- The scope of the Movement -- The principles of reform -- The Klinghardt experiment -- The role of phonetics -- The work of Henry Sweet: an applied linguistic approach -- 15. 'Natural methods of language teaching' from Montaigne to Berlitz -- Learning a language through 'constant conversation' -- Rousseau and Pestalozzi -- The origins of the Direct Method -- Part Three. 1900 to the present day -- Section 1. English language teaching since 1900. the making of a profession -- 16. The teaching of English as a foreign or second language: a survey -- Phase 1 1900-46. Laying the foundations -- Phase 2 1946-70. Consolidation and renewal -- Phase 3 1970 to the present day: Language and communication -- Section 2. Aspects of English language teaching since 1900 -- 17. Harold Palmer and the teaching of spoken language -- Palmer's life and work -- Palmer's methodology -- 18. Choosing the right words -- Michael West and the teaching of reading -- The Basic issue -- Carnegie and after -- 19. Old patterns and new directions -- The establishment of ELT and the post-war consensus -- A.S. Hornby and the teaching of structural patterns -- The early impact of applied linguistics (1941-60) -- The end of the Empire -- New directions in language teaching in the 1960s -- 20. The notion of communication -- The communicative approach -- Communication and language learning -- The Threshold Level Project -- English for Special /Specific Purposes (ESP) -- The Bangalore Project -- Conclusion -- 21. A perspective on recent trendsby H. G. Widdowson -- A chronology of English language teaching.

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