Thanks very much to Harvey Smith, formerly of the Centre for British Teachers, for his generous donation of several boxes of materials relating to projects for the improvement of English language teaching in developing countries.
Richard Smith
13 Jun 2016 14:55
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Writing about web page http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/al/research/collections/elt_archive/milan/
I gave this opening talk at a one-day conference for teachers in Milan today - full details, including recording and powerpoints at the above webpage
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12 Apr 2016 01:27
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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
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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
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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
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19 Jan 2016 10:54
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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
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July 2015 A number of ELT Archive items have been republished on the British Council's Milestones in ELTpage. Here are some notes on the history of the British Council’s involvement with ELTwhich provide context for these items.
TEFLology interview with Richard Smith on History of ELT (June 2015)
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08 Jul 2015 11:09
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Writing about web page http://eltroots.pen.io/
My blog post on 'UCL, IoE, and Early ELT' - on the occasion of the merger of UCL and the London Institute of Education (2nd December 2014)
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15 Dec 2014 21:46
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Writing about web page http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/al/staff/teaching/smith/smith_r/harold_e__palmer_irlt_and_historical_sense_in_elt.pdf
(2013) 'Harold E. Palmer, IRLT and "historical sense" in ELT’, by Richard Smith. IRLT Journal12 (Journal of the Institute for Research in Language Teaching, Tokyo: Special issue to celebrate the Institute's 90th anniversary).Pre-publication version
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04 Jan 2014 07:13
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