The history of language learning and teaching [3-volume set]. I. 16th-18th Century Europe -- II. 19th-20th Century Europe -- III. Across cultures
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University of Nottingham, The
- Unit of assessment
- 26 - Modern Languages and Linguistics
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- 1335690
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- B - Edited book
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- Modern Humanities Research Association
- ISBN
- 978-1-781886-98-4
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- Month of publication
- September
- Year of publication
- 2018
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0
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- Additional information
- This three-volume collection, co-edited by McLelland with Smith, is the result of an AHRC-supported Research Network. All 48 papers were double-blind peer reviewed. McLelland co-authored the 19-page, open-access state-of-the-art introduction (ca. 9000 words), mapping out the History of Language Learning and Teaching (HoLLT) as a newly emerging interdisciplinary, intercultural and plurilinguistic field of enquiry. The introduction also suggests how the collection contributes to this developing field and opens up future directions of research.
McLelland’s chapter (III: 194–211, 8500 words), ‘Der Schüler ist fleissig. Wir sind Freunde [The pupil is diligent. We are friends]: Teaching German Language and Cultural Values in China, C. 1906–08’, is one of the first studies to examine the almost completely uncharted history of teaching European languages in China. Its case study is a textbook series used to teach German in mission schools in the short-lived German concession in North-East China. The chapter examines the approach to teaching German both in that local context and in light of European developments in language teaching theory and practice in the late 19th and early 20th century, and shows how the author seeks out common ideological ground between German and Chinese models of empire and morality in his teaching.
The collection was re-published in 2020 in the student-priced Legenda paperback range.
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