The History of Grammar in Foreign Language Teaching
Published on 1. October 2025
254 pages
978-1-040-79939-0 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
File size
1,67 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-040-79939-0 (9781040799390)
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Simon Coffey
The History of Grammar in Foreign Language Teaching
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The History of Grammar in Foreign Language Teaching
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Person
Simon Coffey is Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Modern Languages Education at King's College London, where he is Programme Director of the PGCE. His scholarship revolves around modern languages teaching in schools and he is currently researching the history of French teaching and learning in England.
Content
Introduction (Simon Coffey), 1. The emergence of grammar in the Western world: grammatical theory and language teaching in Greek Antiquity (Pierre Swiggers & Alfons Wouters), 2. Secondary grammar education in the Middle Ages (Anneli Luhtala), 3. Grammar is the Key: AElfric'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 (Jose J. Gomez Asencio, Carmen Quijada & Pierre Swiggers), 5. Quelle grammaire francaise pour les etrangers, du seizieme au dix-huitieme siecle? (Valerie Raby), 6. Grammar in verse: Latin pedagogy in seventeenth-century England (Victoria Moul), 7. Learning grammar in eighteenth-century Russia (Ekaterina Kislova, Tatiana Kostina & Vladislav Rjeoutski), 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 reforme en France et en Grande-Bretagne (Javier Suso Lopez & Irene Valdes Melguizo), 11. Grammar in English schools: a century of decline and rebirth (Richard Hudson), 12. Reflexion epistemologique en didactique du francais langue etrangere sur la place de la grammaire de l'oralite ? (Corinne Weber), Afterword (Nicola McLelland), Index.
