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Sweet = Higgins?

Posted on 26. November 2012 by schaefew

Henry Sweet, the man who ‘taught phonetics to Europe’, graduated with a fourth class degree when he was thirty! Later, he was turned down several times for a professorship, something which crippled his relations with colleagues and fellow professionals for … Continue reading →

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Naturally invented texts?

Posted on 26. November 2012 by schaefew

Henry Sweet, the man who ‘taught phonetics to Europe’, is less well known as the author of  The Practical Study of Languages, a book which made him the orgininator of applied linguistics to the teaching of languages. Sweet recognised one … Continue reading →

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Paedagogical natives?

Posted on 26. November 2012 by schaefew

Henry Sweet, the man who ‘taught phonetics to Europe’, in his pedagogical work made a clear point in favour of the non-native teacher. For teaching Germans English, he believed, a phonetically trained German was far superior to an untrainded Englishman, … 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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