All entries for January 2016

Webinar on 'Researching ELT History' – recording available

Writing about web page http://resig.weebly.com/elt-history-webinar.html

Richard Smith gave an introductory one-hour webinar on 'Researching ELT History' for IATEFL Research SIG on 25 January 2016. The recording and powerpoint slides are available at the above website.

Richard Smith : 27 Jan 2016 16:47 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Donation of materials by Paul Snowden

Thank you very much indeed to Paul Snowden for his donation of a few rare books, all current in Japan when Harold Palmer developed his 'Standard English Course' there:

1. New School Grammar by S. Shioya, first pub. Kaiseikan, Tokyo 1915: this 6th edition (approved by Ministry of Ed.) 1925-6

2. English Grammar by William Swinton, orig. pub. Harper & Brothers, U.S. 1877: reproduced by Rikugokuwan, Tokyo 1886, this 9th edition 1896

3. Barnes's New National Readers, Numbers 2, 3 & 4, orig. pub. in U.S.: reproduced by Shobido, Osaka 1901, these editions 1909-1920

4. Books' New National Reader Number 5, orig. pub. in U.S.: reproduced by Seizenkwan 1902, this 3rd edition 1905

Paul also donated: a well-used copy of an English-English dictionary that Kenkyusha brought out before the Idiomatic and Syntactic English Dictionary(Kaitakusha, 1942, eds. Hornby, Gatenby and Wakefield)-- a 1955 reprint of a first edition dated Showa 13, i.e. 1938. Paul wrote about this dictionary in his piece on A.S. Hornby in the Britain and Japan: Biographical portraits series edited by Hugh Cortazzi.

Richard Smith : 25 Jan 2016 12:35 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

IATEFL's 2nd to 10th conferences

Writing about web page https://richardsmithelt.wordpress.com/2015/12/30/the-1968-to-1975-iatefl-conferences-how-things-have-moved-on/

Blog post on IATEFL's 2nd to 10th conferences

Richard Smith : 19 Jan 2016 10:54 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Donation of materials by Tony Wright

Tony Wright has donated the following material:

1. Compendium Vols 1-3 ( A series of 'handbooks' produced by the MoE in Malaysia for English teachers) Dated 1989 [An interesting insight into the approach taken to prof development there at that time]

2. Teachers' Resource Centres (a handbook on setting up and running TRCs prepared by the Commonwealth Institute.) Dated 1984

3. Use of English Course for West African Students. Helen Parry 1979 Macmillan

Thanks Tony!

Richard Smith : 19 Jan 2016 10:53 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem