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  • The History of Grammar in Foreign Language Teaching

    The History of Grammar in Foreign Language Teaching by Coffey, Simon;

    Series: Languages and Culture in History;

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    Product details:

    • Edition number 1
    • Publisher Routledge
    • Date of Publication 1 December 2025

    • ISBN 9781041188148
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages254 pages
    • Size 234x156 mm
    • Language English
    • 700

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    Short description:

    This volume traces the concept of grammar chronologically from Antiquity through contemporary language pedagogy.

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    Long 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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    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 & Alfons Wouters), 2. Secondary grammar education in the Middle Ages (Anneli Luhtala), 3. Grammar is the Key: &&&198;lfric'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 & 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 & 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 & 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.

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