new catalogue (3rd edition) published!

Writing about web page http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/al/research/collect/elt_archive/catalogue

The work for this was done in 2010-11 but it's taken some time to get down to putting it all together - our new catalogue - in three parts! All made possible due to a British Council grant in 2010-11 for which we're very grateful. Plus lots of hard work by Sheila Verrier in the Resources Room on free mornings. Thanks Sheila and the BC!

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Donation by Hywel Coleman

In all, we've received the following issues of the IATEFL newsletter from Hywel Coleman, as a result of our appeal for missing issues via IATEFL's e-bulletin:

35-36 (2 issues)

38-39 (2 issues)

45-86 (42 issues).

This fills a big hole in our / IATEFL's own existing collection - thank you very much Hywel!

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Donation of project evaluations by Rosalyn Hurst

Writing about web page http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/al/research/collect/elt_archive/research_projects/elt_projects/bibliography/

Many thanks to Rosalyn Hurst, who drove up last Friday from Sussex with some valuable items for the Archive including project evaluation reports and other hard-to-obtain items. There will be some very useful additions to our archive of UK-funded project reports. See: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/al/research/collect/elt_archive/research_projects/elt_projects/bibliography/

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IATEFL newsletters recovered

The Charles Forbes collection (as yet uncatalogued) has revealed IATEFL newsletters 1-40, except for 32. And Hywel Coleman has just sent us issues 55-64 from Indonesia. So we're well on the way to being able to reconstruct the early history of IATEFL from sources in the ELT Archive!

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back issues of Modern English Teacher donated by Heather Kempson

Writing about web page http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/al/research/collect/elt_archive/catalogue/

Thanks very much to Heather Kempson, who has sent us a run of Modern English Teacher that we were missing (from 4/1 to 12/4.

We're still looking for a copy of the very first issue, published in 1973, in case anyone has one! See here for a list of journal volumes and issues we are seeking for the collection: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/al/research/collect/elt_archive/catalogue/

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IATEFL History

Our recent request to IATEFL members for old IATEFL newsletters (in the run-up to 50th anniversary celebrations in 2016-17) has brought a good response.

We have a promise of a substantial run of early back issues, and Jonathan Marks has just sent us missing issues 102 (appositely advertising the 1989 Warwick conference on the front cover!), 105, and 113. Thanks, Jonathan!

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miscellaneous

A number of things to record briefly -

* a generous donation of back copies of English Teaching Forum by Carol Everhard

* beginnings of a project to write a History of IATEFL (with Shelagh Rixon)

* beginnings of a project to research post-independence history of ELT in India

* successful workshops in late June in the Centre for Applied Linguistics for postgraduate research students in the field of history of language teaching and established scholars (workshop 2 in an AHRC sponsored series: http://historyofmfl.weebly.com/workshops--conference.html)

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Video Interview with John Trim

Writing about web page http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/al/research/collect/elt_archive/resources/johntrim/

Now available: Interview with John Trim about the History of Modern Language Teaching and Learning, 19 September 2013.

Richard Smith and Nicola McLelland interviewed John Trim for their project 'History of Modern Language Education in the UK and Europe' (http://historyofmfl.weebly.com/index.html).

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History of EAP and of BALEAP

Writing about web page http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/al/research/collect/elt_archive/presentations/history_of_eap

20 April 2013. Panel discussion on 'History of EAP and of BALEAP' organized and chaired by Richard Smith. Panellists: John Swales, Andy Gillett and Meriel Bloor. BALEAP Conference 2013: ‘The Janus Moment in EAP: Revisiting the Past and Building the Future’, University of Nottingham, April.

Video of Richard Smith's talk for the British Council - 'A short history of ELT' -- was published online earlier in the year: http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/seminars/a-short-history-elt. I managed to insert some photographs of A.S. Hornby and his students taken in 1920s Japan, thanks to the generosity of Phyllis Willis and Paul Snowden.

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A further publication – Hunter and Smith on CLT and the ELTJ

In October the following article was published, having been held back for a special issue of the ELT Journal to mark Keith Morrow's retirement as editor. The article is based on Duncan Hunter's PhD work at Warwick:

Hunter, D. and Smith, R. 2012, Unpackaging the past: "CLT" through ELTJkeywords', ELT Journal66/4: 430-439.

For those interested in finding out more about the research, the full thesis is available on the ELT Archive website:

'Communicative Language Teaching and the ELT Journal: A Corpus-Based Approach to the History of a Discourse', by Duncan Hunter (2009). PhD thesis, Centre for Applied Linguistics, University of Warwick.

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