26.5157, Books: German Through English Eyes: McLelland

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Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2015 17:08:35
From: Krista Zimmer [krista at isdistribution.com]
Subject: German Through English Eyes: McLelland

 


Title: German Through English Eyes 
Subtitle: A History of Language Teaching and Learning in Britain 1500-2000 
Series Title: Fremdsprachen in Geschichte und Gegenwart  

Publication Year: 2015 
Publisher: ISD, Distributor of Scholarly Books
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Book URL: http://www.isdistribution.com/BookDetail.aspx?aId=57453 


Author: Nicola McLelland

Hardback: ISBN:  9783447101486 Pages: 420 Price: U.S. $ 106.00


Abstract:

McLelland's pioneering study charts the history of foreign language learning and teaching in the UK over five centuries (1500-2000), taking German as her case study. From the first grammar of German for English speakers, published in 1680, McLelland traces the growth in interest in German for travel and trade, and its rapid increase in prestige in the eighteenth century as a language of literary merit, before German became established in schools and universities from the second quarter of the nineteenth century onwards.

Taking hundreds of textbooks as her primary sources, as well as the pronouncements of teachers, examiners and policy-makers, McLelland considers the changing reasons for teaching and learning German, and the consequent changes in teaching methods (including the influence of the Reform Movement around 1900, innovations such as language laboratories, and, more recently, the communicative approach). She analyses changes in how the German language was presented, including advances in how the sound system and word order were described. Finally, and crucially, she considers how German culture and history have been represented to English-speaking learners, particularly over the past hundred years, a century of troubled Anglo-German cultural relations. A chronological bibliography of several hundred textbooks for the period 1600-2000 will serve as a stimulus for further research. (Harrassowitz Verlag 2015) 



Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
                     Historical Linguistics
                     History of Linguistics
                     Language Acquisition

Subject Language(s): German (deu)

Language Family(ies): Germanic


Written In: English  (eng)

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