How to Teach a Foreign Language
How to Teach a Foreign Language

Author: Otto Jespersen

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-05-24

Total Pages: 221

ISBN-13: 1135662398

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This book was first published in 1904, How to Teach a Foreign Language is a valuable contribution to the field of English Language and Linguistics.

The Politics of Early Language Teaching
The Politics of Early Language Teaching

Author: Ágoston Berecz

Publisher: Central European University Press

Published: 2014-08-10

Total Pages: 285

ISBN-13: 6155547106

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Disseminating knowledge of the state language to the non-Magyar half of the citizenry was a policy priority of the government of the Hungarian Kingdom between the 1870s and the First World War. Drawing on a wide array of sources, The Politics of Early Language Teaching provides an in-depth look at how Hungarian was taught to ethnic Romanian and German children in the south-eastern tracts of the Habsburg Empire. The monograph covers the ever-harshening legislation from the period, reconsidering the role of state supervision and exploring the contemporary methodological debates as well as taking a closer look at classroom practices. Not only does the book throw much light in comparative mode on one of Europe s great early experiments in linguistic engineering; but it provides many new insights into Dualist Hungary s competing national ideologies and the limits of their efficacy on the ground.

Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language
Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language

Author: Andrea Facchin

Publisher: Amsterdam University Press

Published: 2019-06-14

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 9048542901

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The study concentrates on the origins, developments and current directions of the discipline called Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language (TAFL) within the Arab world and partially outside of it during the last sixty years, namely between 1958 and 2018. The most influential scholars, authors, educators and those significant works that contributed to the development of the discipline are taken into account. In addition, special attention is paid to the TAFL institutes, which are considered as epicenters of the activities and that hosted important meetings, allowing scholars to gather around the same table and discuss approaches, trends and methods used in the field of TAFL. All these aspects converge in one comprehensive research, which is enriched by the narration of the main socio-political changes that affected the Middle Eastern region recent history.

Travels in West Africa
Travels in West Africa

Author: Mary H. Kingsley

Publisher:

Published: 1897

Total Pages: 842

ISBN-13:

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As a dutiful Victorian daughter, the author was thirty before being freed (by her parents' deaths) to do as she chose. She went to West Africa in 1893 and again in 1895, to investigate the beliefs and customs of the inland tribes and also to collect zoological specimens. She was appalled by the 'thin veneer of rubbishy white culture' imposed by British officials and was not afraid to say so.