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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)
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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)
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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)
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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.

Language standards, standardisation and standard ideologies in multilingual contexts (2020)
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McLelland, N. (2021). Language standards, standardisation and standard ideologies in multilingual contexts. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 42(2), 109-124. https://doi.org/10.1080/01434632.2019.1708918

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.

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

The history of language learning and teaching in Britain (2018)
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McLelland, N. (2018). The history of language learning and teaching in Britain. Language Learning Journal, 46(1), 6-16. https://doi.org/10.1080/09571736.2017.1382052

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.

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

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

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.