Includes bibliographical references and index.

PART ONE: 1400-1800

1. The early years

2. 'Refugiate in a strange country': the refugee language teachers in Elizabethan London

3. Towards 'the great and common world'

4. Guy Miège and the second Huguenot exile

5. The spread of English language teaching in Europe

SECTION 2: ON 'FIXING' THE LANGUAGE

6. An overview: 1550-1800

7. Two proposals for orthographical reform in the 1500s
The work of John Hart, Chester Herald
Richard Mulcaster's Elementarie

8. Two pedagogical grammars of English for foreign learners
Ben Jonson's English Grammar
John Wallis's Grammatica Linguae Anglicanae

9. 'Things, words and notions'

10. The language 'fixed'
Latin schools and English schools
Swift's proposal for a British Academy
Towards Standard English

PART TWO: 1800-1900

INTRODUCTION

English language teaching in the Empire

English language teaching in Europe

SECTION 1: ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING IN THE EMPIRE

11. Teaching English overseas: similarities and contrasts
Reports on specific territories
Teaching English in India
Conclusion

SECTION 2: ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING IN EUROPE

12. The grammar-translation method
The origins of the method
Language teaching in schools: some Anglo-German contrasts
Language learning by adults: the 'practical approach' of Ahn and Ollendorff

13. Individual reformers
Overview
'All is in all': Jean Joseph Jacotot
The Rational Method of Claude Marcel
Thomas Prendergast's 'Mastery System'
François Gouin and the 'Series'

14. The Reform Movement
The scope of the Movement
The principles of reform
The Klinghardt experiment
The role of phonetics
The work of Henry Sweet: an applied linguistic approach

15. 'Natural methods of language teaching' from Montaigne to Berlitz
Learning a language through 'constant conversation'
Rousseau and Pestalozzi
The origins of the Direct Method

PART THREE: 1900 TO THE PRESENT DAY

SECTION 1: ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING SINCE 1900: THE MAKING OF A PROFESSION

16. The teaching of English as a foreign or second language: a survey
Phase 1 1900-46: Laying the foundations
Phase 2 1946-70: Consolidation and renewal
Phase 3 1970 to the present day: Language and communication

SECTION 2 ASPECTS OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING SINCE 1900

17. Harold Palmer and the teaching of spoken language
Palmer's life and work
Palmer's methodology

18. Choosing the right words
Michael West and the teaching of reading
The Basic issue
Carnegie and after

19. Old patterns and new directions
The establishment of ELT and the post-war consensus
A.S. Hornby and the teaching of structural patterns
The early impact of applied linguistics (1941-60)
The end of the Empire
New directions in language teaching in the 1960s

20. The notion of communication
The communicative approach
Communication and language learning
The Threshold Level Project
English for Special/Specific Purposes (ESP)
The Bangalore Project
Conclusion

21. A perspective on recent trends by H. G. Widdowson

A CHRONOLOGY OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING

Bibliography

Index

"This is a history of the teaching of English to speakers of other languages from the Renaissance to the present day.
It starts in 1400 when English was a minority language spoken by a population of under three million and describes the long process of making the English language teachable, and the developments in language teaching theory and practice which led to the emergence of English Language Teaching (ELT) as an autonomous modern profession. This is a fully revised second edition that includes new sections on English language teaching in the Empire, and revised and additional chapters covering the period from 1900 to the present day, including topics such as ESP and the spread of English as a global language. The final chapter is an in-depth discussion of current trends in English language teaching by H.G. Widdowson." (Book Cover)