All entries for November 2016

Donation of pamphlet of lectures by C.C. Fries and W. Freeman Twaddell, from Rob Lowe

Writing about web page http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/al/research/collections/elt_archive/halloffame/fries/

Many thanks to Rob Lowe for his recent donation to the Warwick ELT Archive of a rare item he obtained in Tokyo - Lectures by C.C. Fries and W.F. Twaddell, published in 1958 for the Englsh Language Exploratory Committee, Tokyo, by Kenkyusha. Charles Fries (19887-1967) was the principal founder of the 'Oral Approach' - a precursor of audiolingualism - which was diffused in Japanese schools from the mid-1950s to mid-1960s (see Lynn Earl Henrichsen's book Diffusion of Innovations in English Language Teaching: The ELEC Effort in Japan, 1956-1968).

Richard Smith : 27 Nov 2016 19:30 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Meiklejohn's Short Grammar of the English Tongue – Colonial Edition

Writing about web page http://warwick.ac.uk/elt_archive

Many thanks to Irene Lavington, British Council London, for her donation to the ELT Archive of J.M.D. Meiklejohn's A Short Grammar of the English Tongue with Two Hundred and Eighty Exercises(n.d. publ. Meiklejohn and Son, London). This edition was 'intended for circulation in Egypt, India, and the British Colonies'

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Richard Smith : 07 Nov 2016 16:03 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Linguaphone German course, c. 1961

Writing about web page https://mickhammond.wordpress.com/2016/11/01/language-learning-a-thing-of-the-past/

Thanks very much to Mick Hammond of the Centre for Education Studies at Warwick for his donation of a Linguaphone German course from around 1961 (this is the date of a long personalized letter of encouragement from the Linguaphone Institute Director of Studies to L.M. Arrowsmith Esq. which came with the set) - see photos below. Mick has recently blogged about the course here: https://mickhammond.wordpress.com/2016/11/01/language-learning-a-thing-of-the-past/

Richard Smith : 02 Nov 2016 15:03 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem