Innovation and Reform in 19th - Early 20th Century Modern Foreign Language Teaching
Some of Richard Smith's research in this area has been published in Introductions accompanying facsimile reprints in the following two sets of volumes:
Foundations of Foreign Language Teaching: Nineteenth-century Innovators, six volumes,with General Introduction, edited by A.P.R. Howatt and Richard C. Smith (2000). London: Routledge.
Contents
Volume 1: Joseph Jacotot and James Hamilton
Volume 2: Claude Marcel (I)
Volume 3: Claude Marcel (II)
Volume 4: Thomas Prendergast
Volume 5: Lambert Sauveur and Maximilian Berlitz
Volume 6: François Gouin
Contents
Volume 1: Joseph Jacotot and James Hamilton
Volume 2: Claude Marcel (I)
Volume 3: Claude Marcel (II)
Volume 4: Thomas Prendergast
Volume 5: Lambert Sauveur and Maximilian Berlitz
Volume 6: François Gouin
Modern Language Teaching: The Reform Movement, five volumes, with General Introduction and volume introductions, edited by A.P.R. Howatt and Richard C. Smith (2002). London: Routledge. Sample pages.
Contents
Volume 1: Linguistic Foundations
Volume 2: Early Years of Reform
Volume 3: Germany and France
Volume 4: Britain and Scandinavia
Volume 5: Bibliographies and Overviews
Contents
Volume 1: Linguistic Foundations
Volume 2: Early Years of Reform
Volume 3: Germany and France
Volume 4: Britain and Scandinavia
Volume 5: Bibliographies and Overviews
See also:
'Claude Marcel (1793-1876): A neglected applied linguist?' by Richard Smith (2009), Language and History 52/2: 171-181. Also available online: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/al/staff/smith_r/claude_marcel.pdf
and
'Walter Rippmann and Otto Siepmann as Reform Movement textbook authors: A contribution to the history of teaching and learning German in the United Kingdom' by Nicola McLelland (2012), Language and History 55:125-145.
Short biographies of Wilhelm Viëtor (1850-1918), Maximilian Berlitz (1852-1921), Paul Passy (1859-1940) and Otto Jespersen (1860-1943) are available on the Warwick ELT Archive website: www.warwick.ac.uk/go/elt_archive/halloffame
Richard Smith and Nicola McLelland are currently engaged in a collaborative project to delve deeper into the progress of the Reform Movement in England and further afield.
'Claude Marcel (1793-1876): A neglected applied linguist?' by Richard Smith (2009), Language and History 52/2: 171-181. Also available online: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/al/staff/smith_r/claude_marcel.pdf
and
'Walter Rippmann and Otto Siepmann as Reform Movement textbook authors: A contribution to the history of teaching and learning German in the United Kingdom' by Nicola McLelland (2012), Language and History 55:125-145.
Short biographies of Wilhelm Viëtor (1850-1918), Maximilian Berlitz (1852-1921), Paul Passy (1859-1940) and Otto Jespersen (1860-1943) are available on the Warwick ELT Archive website: www.warwick.ac.uk/go/elt_archive/halloffame
Richard Smith and Nicola McLelland are currently engaged in a collaborative project to delve deeper into the progress of the Reform Movement in England and further afield.