German Through English Eyes: A History of Language Teaching and Learning in Britain 1500-2000

by Nicola McLelland

McLelland's pioneering study charts the history of foreign language learning and teaching in the UK over five centuries (1500-2000), taking German as her case study. From the first grammar of German for English speakers, published in 1680, McLelland traces the growth in interest in German for travel and trade, and its rapid increase in prestige in the eighteenth century as a language of literary merit, before German became established in schools and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3447101482
• ISBN13: 9783447101486
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: Harrassowitz
• Length: 444 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.9" x 9.6"