37.1532, Books: The Fabrication of Traditional Language Teaching: Schmenk (2026)

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Date: 21-Apr-2026
From: Lucy Trotter [lucy.trotter at bloomsbury.com]
Subject: The Fabrication of Traditional Language Teaching: Schmenk (2026)


Title: The Fabrication of Traditional Language Teaching
Publication Year: 2026

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
           http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/
Book URL:
https://www.bloomsbury.com/fabrication-of-traditional-language-teaching-9781350563254/

Author(s): Barbara Schmenk

Hardback, ISBN: 9781350563254, £85.00

Abstract:

'Traditional' language teaching has come to be equated with old,
dysfunctional, outdated, or backward pedagogies. But is that really
all there is to it? This book breaks through the disinterest in
tradition and challenges taken-for-granted assumptions about the realm
of the traditional in language education, gradually revealing that the
common and dismissal of traditional language teaching is inadequate
and flawed – a fabrication.
To disrupt this fabrication of traditional language teaching, The
Fabrication of Traditional Language Teaching argues for the reclaiming
and reframing of tradition as a crucial concept in language education
and scholarship. It provides an in-depth investigation of applied
linguistics scholarship and the knowledge that it has produced about
traditions, relates this to interdisciplinary perspectives on
tradition that have been advanced in the social sciences, philosophy,
education, and cultural studies. By tracing the ways in which
traditional language education has been, and continues to be,
fabricated, it reveals how this fabrication affects and impedes our
understanding of language education and research.

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     General Linguistics




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