All Outputs (22)

Christian Ludwig (1660-1728) and the beginnings of German/English lexicography (2024)
Journal Article

Christian Ludwig’s 1706 A dictionary English, German, and French and his 1716 Teutsch–Englisches Lexicon were the first bilingual dictionaries published in response to an emerging German interest in learning English. Setting the dictionaries in the w... Read More about Christian Ludwig (1660-1728) and the beginnings of German/English lexicography.

Adelung's English-German dictionary (1783, 1796): its achievements and its relationship to the dictionaries of Samuel Johnson and Johannes Ebers (2023)
Journal Article

This article examines Johann Christoph Adelung's English-German dictionary (1783, 1796). The dictionary deserves our attention because it was undertaken by the author of a ground-breaking German dictionary (Adelung 1774-86, 21793-1801), working from... Read More about Adelung's English-German dictionary (1783, 1796): its achievements and its relationship to the dictionaries of Samuel Johnson and Johannes Ebers.

The influence of advocacy, infrastructure, policy-making, policy arbiters, and policy disruptors on language learning in English secondary schools since 1945 (2022)
Journal Article

Taking the history of languages education policy in England as its case study, this paper examines how the practice of teaching and learning French and other languages has been shaped, in various ways, by advocacy; by institutional infrastructure; an... Read More about The influence of advocacy, infrastructure, policy-making, policy arbiters, and policy disruptors on language learning in English secondary schools since 1945.

Negotiating Mongolian ethnic identity through the teaching of Mandarin Chinese as a second language (2022)
Journal Article

Despite growing attention paid to the language ideologies of teachers as actors in bilingualism or multilingualism studies, little research has examined whether and how power dynamics between majority and minority languages play a role in the promulg... Read More about Negotiating Mongolian ethnic identity through the teaching of Mandarin Chinese as a second language.

Women in the history of lexicography. An overview, and the case of German (2022)
Conference Proceeding

This paper first attempts a state-of-the art overview of what is known about women in the history of lexicography up to the early twentieth century. It then focusses more closely on the German and German-English lexicographical traditions to 1900, ex... Read More about Women in the history of lexicography. An overview, and the case of German.

Grammars, dictionaries and other metalinguistic texts in the context of language standardization (2021)
Book Chapter

Language standards, standardisation and standard ideologies in multilingual contexts (2020)
Journal Article

This essay-which also serves as an introduction to the six other articles which make up this special issue-examines the development of the field of language standardisation studies in recent decades. First, it notes the change in focus occasioned by... Read More about Language standards, standardisation and standard ideologies in multilingual contexts.

The history of language learning and teaching (HoLLT) in the history of linguistics (2020)
Conference Proceeding

Fifty years after two of the first overviews of the history of language teaching (Titone 1968, Kelly 1969), this paper highlights the value of the history of language learning and teaching (HoLLT) to the history of linguistics, from three perspective... Read More about The history of language learning and teaching (HoLLT) in the history of linguistics.

The history of language learning and teaching [3-volume set]. I. 16th-18th Century Europe -- II. 19th-20th Century Europe -- III. Across cultures (2018)
Book

[Contents: volume I. 16th-18th Century Europe -- v. II. 19th-20th Century Europe -- volume III. Across cultures]

Mining foreign language teaching manuals for the history of pragmatics (2018)
Journal Article

Foreign language learning manuals can be valuable sources for the history of pragmatics and historical pragmatics. They may contain explicit guidance on pragmatics not found in native-speaker grammars: for example, accounts of German forms of address... Read More about Mining foreign language teaching manuals for the history of pragmatics.

Deutsch als Fremdsprache und die deutsch-englische Lexikographie bis 1900 (2018)
Book Chapter

Die Geschichte der deutsch-englischen Lexikographie aus der Perspektive Deutsch als Fremdsprache wurde bis jetzt kaum beachtet. Hier wird diese Geschichte von ihren Anfangen im 17. Jahrhundert bis ca. 1900 skizziert. Drei Phasen werden unterschieden:... Read More about Deutsch als Fremdsprache und die deutsch-englische Lexikographie bis 1900.

Histories of language learning and teaching in Europe (2018)
Journal Article

The history of language learning and teaching in Britain (2018)
Journal Article

This article provides an overview, based on the most recent research available, of the history of language learning and teaching (HoLLT) in Britain. After an overview of the state of research, we consider which languages have been learnt, why, and ho... Read More about The history of language learning and teaching in Britain.

Teaching and learning foreign languages : a history of language education, assessment and policy in Britain (2017)
Book

Teaching and Learning Foreign Languages provides a comprehensive history of language teaching and learning in the UK from its earliest beginnings to the year 2000. McLelland offers the first history of the social context of foreign language education... Read More about Teaching and learning foreign languages : a history of language education, assessment and policy in Britain.

German global soft power, 1700-1920 (2016)
Book Chapter

This article provides the first overview of the reach and 'soft power' of German language and culture in Europe and beyond, from 1700 to 1920, shortly after the end of the First World War. Besides the role of the state (weak, until deliberate policie... Read More about German global soft power, 1700-1920.

German as a foreign language in Britain: the history of German as a 'useful' language since 1600 (2015)
Journal Article

A quarter of a century ago, two essays examined the early history of German as a Foreign Language (GFL) in Britain.2 The present paper revisits the history of GFL at a time of perceived crisis in modern language education, to provide some historical... Read More about German as a foreign language in Britain: the history of German as a 'useful' language since 1600.

Teach yourself Chinese--how? The history of Chinese self-instruction manuals for English speakers, 1900-2010 (2015)
Journal Article

This paper examines the history of self-instructional manuals of (Mandarin) Chinese published in Britain between 1900 and 2010, one of the main ways of learning Chinese for most of the 20th century in Britain, when Chinese instruction was virtually n... Read More about Teach yourself Chinese--how? The history of Chinese self-instruction manuals for English speakers, 1900-2010.

German through English eyes : a history of language teaching and learning in Britain 1500-2000 (2015)
Book

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... Read More about German through English eyes : a history of language teaching and learning in Britain 1500-2000.

French and German in British schools, 1850-1945 (2014)
Journal Article

Introduction: building the history of language learning and teaching (HoLLT) (2014)
Journal Article