Coffey, Simon, éd. 2020. The History of Grammar in Foreign Language Teaching

A short history is sketched of the selection of vocabulary in foreign language teaching. The author briefly touches on the position and function of Latin in classical times and the changes thereof in the Renaissance. Gradually, from the end of the Middle Ages French took over as an international language. So French had to be taught. And vocabulary to be selected. Frequency of occurrence as a principle of selection was not consciously applied, however, before the 20th century. The remainder of the article deals with the history of the frequency lists in this century and explains the methods used, the difficulties, the advancement since computers assist the selector, and the appli-cations to foreign language teaching. The author concludes with a short discussion of why selection is still a problem and according to him still necessary.

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Text in the Foreign Language Teaching

MGIMO Review of International Relations ◽

10.24833/2071-8160-2012-5-26-204-209 ◽

2012 ◽

pp. 204-209

Author(s):

N. N. Klementsova

Keyword(s):

Foreign Language ◽

Communicative Competence ◽

Language Teaching ◽

Short Review ◽

Foreign Language Teaching ◽

Text Production ◽

Language Classroom ◽

Foreign Language Classroom ◽

History Of ◽

Insight Into

The article offers a short review of the history of text studies undertaken by different branches of linguistic sciences and focuses on the possibilities of the text in the foreign language classroom aiming at the development of the students’ communicative competence. The text is characterized as a form of language units actualization, as structural and semantic entity giving an insight into the mechanism for sense integration in the processes of text production and comprehension. The text is also described as a base for the development of correlating receptive and productive skills of the students.

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CREATIVE WRITING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING

Современная высшая школа инновационный аспект ◽

10.7442/2071-9620-2021-13-2-85-93 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 85-93

Author(s):

S.A. Pitina ◽

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A.D. Shcherbov ◽

Keyword(s):

Creative Writing ◽

Foreign Language ◽

Language Teaching ◽

English Literature ◽

Foreign Language Teaching ◽

Business English ◽

Writing Assignments ◽

History Of ◽

Teaching Learning ◽

Independent Work

The article is an attempt to reveal the role of creative writing in the process of foreign language teaching/learning at higher school. Approaches to teaching creative writing to students, who learn English as a first foreign language at the classes of business English, history of the English literature and practical course of the first foreign language are discussed. The effectiveness of creative writing assignments as independent work is proven.

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The History of Grammar in Foreign Language Teaching

10.5117/9789463724616 ◽

2020 ◽

Keyword(s):

Foreign Language ◽

Language Learning ◽

Middle Ages ◽

Teacher Educators ◽

Language Teaching ◽

Language Education ◽

Foreign Language Education ◽

Foreign Language Teaching ◽

Original Essays ◽

History Of

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 'foreign' language teaching across different European cultural contexts. Bringing together leading scholars of classical and modern languages education, this book 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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