Policies and Practice in Language Learning and Teaching

Sabine Doff has been Full Professor of English Language Education at the Department of Language and Literary Studies, University of Bremen, Germany since 2009. Her main interests cover the historiography of language education in and beyond Europe, curriculum studies, culture and cultural learning in the language classroom, inclusive language education and content and language integrated learning.Richard Smith is a Professor of English Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics at the University of Warwick, UK. He is the founder and joint coordinator of the International Association of Applied Linguistics (AILA) Research Network on History of Language Learning and Teaching, and he has published widely in this field (including, with N. Mclelland, The History of Language Learning and Teaching (3 volumes, Legenda, 2018) and, with T. Giesler, Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching: Historical Perspectives (Benjamins, in press).

• I INTRODUCTION1 Valorizing Practice in Twentieth-century Language Learning and TeachingSabine Doff and Richard SmithII CONTENT2 Ovid’s Metamorphoses Are Read Everywhere!? Historical Remarks on a Classical Text in Latin Teaching in GermanyStefan Kipf3 Teaching SchillerPhilological Discourse and Educational Practice at Schools of Higher Education in the German Kaiserreich—The Example of Wallenstein Norman Ächtler4 Writing about German LiteratureExamination and Text Forms in the French Occupation Zone, 1945–1949Sabine RehIII METHOD5 Practice Escaping an Ideological GripHow the CLT Agenda Slipped through the Cracks of Error TaxonomiesJoanna Pfingsthorn6 “Teachers May Feel that They Should …”Attempts to Align the Intended and the Taught Curriculum in 1980s Bremen Manuals for Communicative Language TeachingTim Giesler7 The Quest for Communicative Competence in ForeignLanguage Learning in English Schools, 1968–2010John Daniels8 Teaching English Writing in the Twentieth Century Seen through Handbooks for Mother-tongue and Foreign SpeakersLaura Pinnavaia and Annalisa ZanolaIV AIMS9 ‘Too Much Workload in Technical Schools!’Luigi Pavia and the Teaching of English in Italian Technical Schools on the Threshold of the Twentieth CenturySilvia Pireddu10 Yoshisaburô Okakura and the Practical Value of the Study ofEnglish in Secondary Schools in Early Twentieth-century JapanKohei Uchimaru11 The British JuggernautESP Practice and Purpose in the 1970sShona WhyteV CONTEXT12 Sociocultural, Political, and Educational Aspects of TeachingEnglish in Polish Schools in the Interwar Period (1918–1939)Irmina Kotlarska13 English as a Foreign Language in GeorgiaFrom Past to PresentEkaterine Shaverdashvili and Nino Chkhikvadze14 Language Teacher Education Improvements Would Valorize PracticeA Recent History of Intercultural Language Teaching in Aotearoa/ New ZealandSharon Harvey15 Social Attitudes toward ‘School English’ in Classroom Practice in South Korea from 1970 to the PresentRobert J. Fouser