The History of Language Learning and Teaching (Vols. I-III)

Abstract

This three-volume collection is the outcome of a project on the history of language learning and teaching supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the A. S. Hornby Educational Trust of Great Britain. Although many of the contributions contained in this collection originated as papers presented at a conference held at the University of Nottingham in 2014, it is clear that a lot of energy and perseverance has gone into the production of a collection of this size and scope. Not only have the editors succeeded in bringing together some fifty contributions (each of them peer-reviewed) ranging over five centuries, from a variety of Western and non-Western societies, they have also managed to cull these contributions from a pool of scholars, both acknowledged experts in and relative novices to this comparatively new field of historiography. Nine of the studies are in French with an English summary prefixed to them. As far as I know, this three-volume collection is the first-ever attempt at a comparative and truly global history of our discipline.