‘Scientific’ Language Teaching (Journal Article)
Smith, Richard
‘Scientific’ Language Teaching (Journal Article) - Chennai : English Language Teachers' Association of India , 2021 - 21-23p. - Journal of English Language Teaching , Volume 63 No. 5 : September - October 2021 .
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Abstract: A recent blog-post by Scott Thornbury on substitution tables (Thornbury 2017), which touches on contributions by Harold Palmer (1877–1949) to their theorization and development, reminded me that there is still just about time this year to celebrate the centenary of Palmer ’s ‘classic’ (1917)work, The Scientific Study and Teaching of Languages. This book can be seen to have heralded what Tony Howatt and I have termed a ‘Scientific Period’ of language teaching discourse, a period of at least 50years during which language teaching theorists tended to relate their proposals quite strongly to background scientific research ofvarious kinds (Howatt and Smith 2014).
0973-5208
Scientific Language Teaching
‘Scientific’ Language Teaching (Journal Article) - Chennai : English Language Teachers' Association of India , 2021 - 21-23p. - Journal of English Language Teaching , Volume 63 No. 5 : September - October 2021 .
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Abstract: A recent blog-post by Scott Thornbury on substitution tables (Thornbury 2017), which touches on contributions by Harold Palmer (1877–1949) to their theorization and development, reminded me that there is still just about time this year to celebrate the centenary of Palmer ’s ‘classic’ (1917)work, The Scientific Study and Teaching of Languages. This book can be seen to have heralded what Tony Howatt and I have termed a ‘Scientific Period’ of language teaching discourse, a period of at least 50years during which language teaching theorists tended to relate their proposals quite strongly to background scientific research ofvarious kinds (Howatt and Smith 2014).
0973-5208
Scientific Language Teaching