Tag Archives: Dialoge

Naturally artificial

Posted on 8. December 2012 by schaefew

The success of informal learning, and especially of the child acquiring its mother-tongue, has always impressed language teachers, and attempts to reproduce the same effect by creating the same conditions have been a regular feature of language teaching history. Locke’s … Continue reading →

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No grammar, please!

Posted on 29. October 2012 by schaefew

The early reformers in language teaching included Roger Ascham and his famous Schoolmaster (1570) and a lesser known, extraodinary writer called Joseph Webbe, best known for his Pueriles Confabulatiunculae (1627), ‘Children’s Talk’, a textbook for the teaching of Latin at … Continue reading →

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No English, please!

Posted on 29. October 2012 by schaefew

Claude de Sainliens alias Claudius Holyband is considered to be the most professional of the language teachers and textbooks writers of the Tudor period in England. He opened several schools in London where he himself taught French (and the standard … Continue reading →

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Houey dou you not pout on yor choùs?

Posted on 25. October 2012 by schaefew

The earliest extant manual specifically designed to teach English as a foreign language, The English Schoolmaster (1580), was written by a Frenchman! The book, like others of its time, was written to help French Huguenot exiles in England, who had … Continue reading →

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