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McLelland, Nicola
German Through English Eyes
A History of Language Teaching and Learning in Britain 1500–2000
series:
volume: 15
pages/dimensions: XIV, 444 pages
language: English
binding: Book (Hardback)
dimensions: 17.00 × 24.00 cm
weight: 1010g
edition: 1. Auflage
publishing date: 01.08.2015
prices: 78,00 Eur[D] / 80,20 Eur[A]
ISBN: 978-3-447-10148-6
DOI: 10.13173/9783447101486
78,00 Eur

McLelland’s pioneering study charts the history of foreign language learning and teaching in the UK over five centuries (1500–2000), taking German as her case study. From the first grammar of German for English speakers, published in 1680, McLelland traces the growth in interest in German for travel and trade, and its rapid increase in prestige in the eighteenth century as a language of literary merit, before German became established in schools and universities from the second quarter of the nineteenth century onwards.
Taking hundreds of textbooks as her primary sources, as well as the pronouncements of teachers, examiners and policy-makers, McLelland considers the changing reasons for teaching and learning German, and the consequent changes in teaching methods (including the influence of the Reform Movement around 1900, innovations such as language laboratories, and, more recently, the communicative approach). She analyses changes in how the German language was presented, including advances in how the sound system and word order were described. Finally, and crucially, she considers how German culture and history have been represented to English-speaking learners, particularly over the past hundred years, a century of troubled Anglo-German cultural relations. A chronological bibliography of several hundred textbooks for the period 1600–2000 will serve as a stimulus for further research.

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