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Applied Linguistics History in Wikipedia
A History of English Language Teaching by APR Howatt and HG Widdowson
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Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching (Cambridge Language Teaching Library) (Paperback)
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"An interesting summary of the various methods used in language teaching for the last 100 years or so.If you are a language teacher,it may well be of interest to you,but it doesn`t give any easy answers,prefering rather to explore the wide range of options available to teachers."
This review is from: A History of English Language Teaching ELT (2nd Edition) (Oxford Applied Linguistics Series) (Paperback)
As an English teacher I was really looking forward to this book but actually it turned out to be a bit of a let down.
I was interested mostly in post-war English teaching and the various developments of methodology, tests and institutions when the post war period only accounts for about 1/3 of the total content. It really is a 'history' in the sense that it starts way back with the very first English lessons which we have evidence of. The problem with this is, -who is the audience? General readers of history might find it to be a quaint curiosity whereas it doesn't inform English teachers about their field particularly. As it was part of the OUP applied ling. series I assumed it would have quite a lot of the things I mentioned earlier. I'm interested in why and when teaching practices changed, hopefully this would inform my own teaching but sadly this book offers little of that.
It is well reseached an thorough in the topic area it deals with, I'm just not sure who is actually interested in reading about that
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