The History of Grammar in Foreign Language Teaching

✍ Scribed by Simon Coffey

• Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 257
• Series: Languages and Culture in History, 10
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Taking a broadly chronological approach, this volume of original essays traces the origins of the concept of ‘grammar’. In doing so, it charts the social, moral and cultural factors that have shaped the development of grammar from Antiquity, via the Middle Ages, Renaissance and Modern Europe, to current education systems and language learning pedagogy. The chapters examine key turning points in the history of language teaching epistemology, focusing on grammar for language teaching across different European cultural contexts. Bringing together leading scholars of classical and modern languages education, The History of Grammar in Foreign Language Teaching offers the first single-source reference on the evolving concept of grammar across cultural and linguistic borders in Western language education. It therefore represents a valuable resource for teachers, teacher-educators and course designers, as well as students and scholars of historical linguistics, and of second and foreign language education.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Table of Contents
Introduction
Simon Coffey
1. The emergence of grammar in the Western world
Grammatical theory and language teaching in Greek Antiquity
Pierre Swiggers and Alfons Wouters
2. Secondary Grammar Education in the Middle Ages
Anneli Luhtala
3. Grammar is the Key
Ælfric’s Grammar and the Teaching of Latin in Tenth-Century England
Don Chapman
4. Spanish grammaticography and the teaching of Spanish in the sixteenth century
José J. Gómez Asencio, Carmen Quijada van den Berghe and Pierre Swiggers
5. Quelle grammaire française pour les étrangers, du seizième au dix-huitième siècle?
Valérie Raby
6. Grammar in verse: Latin pedagogy in seventeenth-century England
Victoria Moul
7. Learning grammar in eighteenth-century Russia
Ekaterina Kislova, Tatiana Kostina and Vladislav Rjéoutski*
8. Wanostrocht’s Practical Grammar and the grammar-translation model
Simon Coffey
9. ‘Language turned back on itself’
Growth and structure of the English metalanguage
John Walmsley
10. La grammaire dans le mouvement de la réforme en France et en Grande-Bretagne
Javier Suso López and Irene Valdés Melguizo
11. Grammar in English schools: a century of decline and rebirth
Richard Hudson
12. Réflexion épistémologique en didactique du français langue étrangère sur la place de la grammaire de l’oralité?
Corinne Weber
Afterword
Nicola McLelland
Index
Languages and Culture in History
Series Editors: Willem Frijhoff and Karène Sanchez-Summerer
List of Figures and Tables
Figures
Figure 10.1 Distribution du contenu proposée par Th. Cartwright (1908)
Figure 11.1 All UK A-level entries for French, German and Spanish
Tables
Table 1.1 An overview of the preserved papyrus texts containing a grammatical manual
Tableau 10.1 Correspondance entre vocabulaire et grammaireTableau composé par Ch. Schweitzer (1903a: 17)
Tableau 12.1 Les principales tendances constitutives de la grammaire de l’oral