Unlocking Linguistic Skills: 5 Classic Books on the Pedagogy of Modern Languages
Classic Foundations of Modern Language Teaching and Phonetic PracticeBy Otto Jespersen, Charles Hardy, K. Rebillon Lambley, Lida Myrtle Williams, Alexander Craig Gibson
Length30h 52m
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Unlocking Linguistic Skills gathers five classic interventions in the pedagogy of modern languages, tracing the enduring questions that shape language classrooms: how learners acquire fluency, how grammar relates to use, and how reading, speech, translation, and habit may be balanced. Its selections range from theoretically minded linguistic reflection to practical instruction, offering a valuable literary and intellectual record of modern-language teaching. The volume's significance lies in its juxtaposition of methods rather than its endorsement of a single doctrine. Otto Jespersen, Charles Hardy, K. Rebillon Lambley, Lida Myrtle Williams, and Alexander Craig Gibson represent a diverse constellation of educators and language thinkers concerned with making linguistic study more effective, systematic, and responsive to learners. Read together, their contributions illuminate the transition from inherited grammar-centered models toward approaches attentive to spoken language, direct engagement, classroom practice, and the psychological realities of learning. Their differing emphases situate the collection within wider debates about reform, modernity, and the professionalization of language teaching. This volume is recommended for students of linguistics, teachers, historians of education, and readers interested in the foundations of contemporary language pedagogy. It provides an unusual opportunity to compare perspectives across styles and methods in one compact anthology, encouraging critical reflection on assumptions that still inform language instruction today.
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GenreOther, Literary Classics
Length30 hrs 52 mins
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Publish dateMar 4, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1How to Teach a Foreign Language
26CHAPTER II
2PREFACE
27CHAPTER III
3I
28CHAPTER IV
4II
29CHAPTER V
5III
30CHAPTER VI
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6IV
31CHAPTER VII
7V
32CHAPTER VIII
8VI
33CHAPTER II
9VII
34CHAPTER III
10VIII
35CHAPTER IV
11IX
36CHAPTER V
12X
37CHAPTER VI
13XI
38CHAPTER VII
14SELECT LIST OF BOOKS.
39APPENDICES
15How to Teach Phonics
40Folk-Speech of Cumberland and Some Districts Adjacent
16FOREWORD
41PREFACE.
17SECOND YEAR
42JOE AND THE GEOLOGIST.
18THIRD YEAR
43T’ REETS ON’T;
19FOURTH YEAR
44BOBBY BANKS’ BODDERMENT. (A Sup of Coald Keàl het up ageàn.)
20The Aural System
45WISE WIFF.
21Supplement.
46LAL DINAH GRAYSON.
22The Teaching and Cultivation of the French Language in England during Tudor and Stuart Times
47JWOHNNY, GIT OOT!
23PREFACE
48THE RUNAWAY WEDDING.
24CHAPTER II
49BILLY WATSON’ LONNING.
25PART II
50LONE AND WEARY.
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