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Adelung's English-German dictionary (1783, 1796): its achievements and its relationship to the dictionaries of Samuel Johnson and Johannes Ebers (2024)
Journal Article
McLelland, N. (in press). Adelung's English-German dictionary (1783, 1796): its achievements and its relationship to the dictionaries of Samuel Johnson and Johannes Ebers. Historiographia Linguistica, 50(1), 62-93. https://doi.org/10.1075/hl.00131.mcl

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 the groundbreaking German dictionary (Adelung 1774-86, 2 1793-1801), working fro... 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
McLelland, N. (2022). The influence of advocacy, infrastructure, policy-making, policy arbiters, and policy disruptors on language learning in English secondary schools since 1945. Documents pour l’Histoire du Français Langue Étrangère ou Seconde, 68, https://doi.org/10.4000/dhfles.8970

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
Wu, J., McLelland, N., & Dauncey, S. (2022). Negotiating Mongolian ethnic identity through the teaching of Mandarin Chinese as a second language. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, https://doi.org/10.1080/01434632.2022.2134879

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
McLelland, N. (2022). Women in the history of lexicography. An overview, and the case of German. In A. Klosa-Kückelhaus, S. Engelberg, C. Möhrs, & P. Storjohann (Eds.), Dictionaries and Society: Proceedings of the XX EURALEX International Congress 12-16 July 2022, Mannheim, Germany (53-70)

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.

The history of language learning and teaching (HoLLT) in the history of linguistics (2020)
Conference Proceeding
McLelland, N. (2020). The history of language learning and teaching (HoLLT) in the history of linguistics. In É. Aussant, & J. Fortis (Eds.), Selected papers from the 14th International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences, (ICHoLS 14), Paris, 28 August – 1 September (189-204). https://doi.org/10.1075/sihols.127.13mcl

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.

Mining foreign language teaching manuals for the history of pragmatics (2018)
Journal Article
McLelland, N. (2018). Mining foreign language teaching manuals for the history of pragmatics. Journal of Historical Pragmatics, 19(1), 28-54. https://doi.org/10.1075/jhp.00012.mcl

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.

Teaching and learning foreign languages : a history of language education, assessment and policy in Britain (2017)
Book
MCLELLAND, N. (2017). Teaching and learning foreign languages : a history of language education, assessment and policy in Britain. London: Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315624853

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 as a foreign language in Britain: the history of German as a 'useful' language since 1600 (2015)
Journal Article
McLelland, N. (2015). German as a foreign language in Britain: the history of German as a 'useful' language since 1600. Angermion, 8(1), https://doi.org/10.1515/anger-2015-001

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.

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

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.

Language description, prescription and usage in seventeenth-century German (2014)
Book Chapter
McLelland, N. (2014). Language description, prescription and usage in seventeenth-century German. In G. Rutten, R. Vosters, & W. Vandenbussche (Eds.), Norms and Usage in Language History, 1600–1900. A sociolinguistic and comparative perspective. Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/ahs.3.11lel

This chapter examines the relationship between language prescription and language use in seventeenth-century German, reporting on a corpus investigation of the influence (or otherwise) of the leading grammarian Justus Georg Schottelius (1612–1676) on... Read More about Language description, prescription and usage in seventeenth-century German.