Histories of language learning and teaching in Europe
Histories of language learning and teaching in Europe
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欧洲语言学习和教学的历史
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10.1080/09571736.2017.1382051
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2018
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Smith R
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Smith R
The articles in this special issue consider the history of learning and teaching languages within particular European countries or regions, including Britain. The papers, by leading scholars in the field, provide accessible, state-of-the-art overviews which cover similar facets of history, enabling comparisons to be usefully drawn and interconnections identified. In a previous special issue of the journal Language & History (McLelland and Smith 2014a), we assembled a different kind of collection of historical overviews of second/foreign language teaching in Europe. Separate articles there considered the parallel overall histories of French, German, Spanish and English learning and teaching in Europe, and surveyed research into these different language traditions. As our introduction to that special issue made clear (McLelland and Smith 2014b), research relating to the history of learning/teaching specific languages is still, in some cases, comparatively rare. Thus, within Europe, there have been relatively few studies of the history of teaching English as a foreign language; only in Germany has there been a significant amount of relevant research, and this is mostly available in German, rather than in English. On the other hand, historical research is relatively well developed in relation, particularly, to the international teaching of French, as is made clear by Besse (2014), reviewing over 25 yearsL work by scholars associated with SIHFLES, the Société Internationale pour lLHistoire du Français Langue Étrangère ou Seconde, which publishes its own scholarly journal, Documents pour l’histoire du français langue étrangère ou seconde. Partly, of course, this discrepancy is accounted for by the fact that the rise of English as a foreign language is relatively recent, whereas, as the articles in the present collection make clear, during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, French was the generally preferred second language throughout Europe. Italian, meanwhile, was favoured in sixteenth-century Germany, as SchröderLs article in this issue indicates, and, of course, Latin was taught across Europe for centuries.The present collection of articles is a counterpart to our previous Language & History special issue. It Lcuts the cakeL of the European history of language learning and teaching in a different, more situated, socio-cultural and multilingual way, viewing history according to geographical location of the learners, classrooms and teachers, rather than according to specific target language. Thus, the present issue contains separate historical overviews of language teaching in Britain (going back to the Norman conquest), the Netherlands (1500-2000), the German-speaking parts of Central Europe (Middle Ages to the present day), France and francophone Switzerland (1740-1940), Spain (sixteenth to eighteenth centuries) and Portugal (eighteenth to nineteenth centuries). Clearly the picture represented here remains incomplete-we would have liked to feature articles on other European countries or regions including Italy and Scandinavia, for example; also, as can be seen, the temporal ranges of the articles vary. Nevertheless, just as our Language & History special issue was innovative in bringing together different language-based histories for the first time (though see also Reinfried 2014), the present issue represents a relatively unique case of language learning/teaching histories in different parts of Europe being deliberately juxtaposed. 1 In order to attain some degree of comparability between different articles whilst simultaneously allowing authors flexibility to draw on their specific expertise in a particular period of history (hence the different temporal ranges noted …
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2018
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N. McLelland;Richard Smith
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Richard Smith
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2014
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Richard Smith;N. McLelland
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N. McLelland
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2000
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J. Caravolas
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2016
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P.A.J.M. Coppen
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P.A.J.M. Coppen
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2018
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Richard Smith
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Richard Smith