Policies and Practice in Language Learning and Teaching: 20th-century Historical Perspectives (Languages and Culture in History) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9463722041 ISBN 13: 9789463722049

Publisher: Amsterdam University Press, 2022

Synopsis

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, we hope 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.

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About the Authors

Sabine Doff is professor of English Language Pedagogy at the University of Bremen, Germany. Her interests in research and teaching focus on the history of (modern) language learning in Europe and beyond, gender and language education as well as methods and methodology in the language classroom. Among her recent publications are: Policies and Practice in Language Learning and Teaching: 20th-century Historical Perspectives (with Richard Smith, eds., Amsterdam: AUP, in print); Media Meets Diversity @ School (with Joanna Pfingsthorn, eds., Trier: wvt; 2020).

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).

Norman Ächtler works as lecturer (Akademischer Rat) at the Justus-Liebig_x0002_University in Gießen. He teaches Modern German Literature and Media Studies/Literature and Media Didactics. Recent publications include: Ächtler, Norman (ed.), Schulprogramme Höherer Lehranstalten―Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven auf eine wiederentdeckte bildungs- und kulturwissenschftliche Quellengattung (Hannover: Wehrhahn, 2020); Ächtler, Norman et al. (ed.), Generationalität―Gesellschaft―Geschichte: Schnittfelder in den deutschsprachigen Literatur- und Mediensystemen nach 1945. Festschrift für Carsten Gansel (Berlin: Verbrecher Verlag, 2021).

Tim Giesler has been a lecturer for English language education since 2010. His main research interest is the historiography of language teaching in institutional context, a field in which he earned his PhD. Before 2010, he was a teacher of (mainly) English, history, and political education at several northern German schools.

Stefan Kipf (born 1964) studied classical philology in Berlin (Freie Univer_x0002_sität) and Austin, TX, USA (1983–1990), and received his doctorate at the FU with a thesis on Herodotus as a school author. In 2005, he habilitated there with a study on the history of teaching classical languages in West Germany from 1945 to 2000. Since 2006, he has served as professor of Didactics of Greek and Latin at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (HU); among other things, he was chairman of the German Association of Classical Philologists (2007–2011) and founding director of the Professional School of Education of the HU (2011–2016). He is currently dean of the faculty of Linguistics and Literary Studies.

Edition details

• Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9463722041
• ISBN 13: 9789463722049
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 364
• Editor: Doff Sabine, Smith Richard