Early Years of Reform

Anthony P R Howatt

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2018
• eBook ISBN:
  9781136404085
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education General

This volume forms part of a five volume set charting the progress of the nineteenth century movement, which was instrumental in establishing international guidelines for the teaching of modern languages. It was during this period that for the first time, co-operation between phoneticians and teachers culminated in the publication of works that were instrumental in establishing the 'applied linguistic' approach to language teaching in the twentieth century. For the first time, too, the new science of psychology influenced a scientific theory of second language acquisition. The Reform Movement attracted support across Europe, spurring the development of new professional associations and journals. In turn, the publication in these journals of reports of innovative practice contributed to a greater sense of autonomy and professionalism among modern language teachers, who had hitherto tended to live under the shadow of classical language teaching. The practical innovations and theoretical suggestions for the foreign language teaching, although rooted in the nineteenth century, still have relevance today.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction to Volume II
• 1 Wilhelm Viëtor — Der Sprachunterricht muss umkehren! Ein Beitrag zur Überbürdungsfrage, 2nd ed., Heilbronn: Henninger, 1886.
• 2 Karl Kühn — Zur Methode des französischen Unterrichts. Ein Beitrag zur Reform des Sprachunterrichts und zur Überbürdungsfrage, Wiesbaden: Bermann, 1883.
• 3 Felix Franke — Die praktische Spracherlernung auf Grund der Psychologie und der Physiologie der Sprache dargestellt, 3rd ed., with 1890 foreword by Otto Jespersen, Leipzig: Reisland, 1896.
• 4 Henry Sweet — ‘The practical study of language’, Transactions of the Philological Society, 1882–4, 1884, pp. 577–99.
• 5 Henry Sweet — Elementarbuch des gesprochenen Englisch (Grammatik, Texte und Glossar), 3rd ed., Oxford: Clarendon Press, and Leipzig: Tauchnitz, 1904.
• 6 H. Klinghardt — ‘Die Lautphysiologie in der Schule’, Englische Studien, 8, 1885, pp. 287–323.
• 7 Dhi Fonètik Tîtcer [The Phonetic Teacher], Volume 1 — (May 1886–April 1887).
• 8 Paul Passy — Le phonétisme au congrès philologique de Stockholm en 1886. Rapport présenté au ministre de l’instruction publique, Paris: Delagrave & Hachette, 1887.
• 9 Otto Jespersen — ‘Der neue Sprachunterricht’, Englische Studien, 10, `887, pp. 412–37.