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Title Approaches to teaching the history of the English language : pedagogy in practice / edited by Mary Hayes and Allison Burkette
Published New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 457 pages)
Contents Cover; Approaches to Teaching the History of the English Language; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Contributors; 1. Introduction; Part One: Reflections on Teaching the History of the English Language; 2. German, Handwriting, and Other Things I Learned to Keep in Mind When Teaching the History of English; 3. Restoring Rhythm: An Auditory Imagination of the History of English; 4. Teaching the History of English: A South African Perspective; 5. How Is HEL Relevant to Me?; Part Two: The Value of Teaching the History of English: Rethinking Curricula
6. Philology, Theory, and Critical Thinking Through the History of the English Language7. The History of the English Language and the Medievalist; 8. English and I: Finding the History of the English Language in the Class; Part Three: Research Paradigms and Pedagogical Practices; 9. Historical Pragmatics in the Teaching of the History of English; 10. Using Principles of Construction Grammar in the History of English Classroom; 11. Addressing "Emergence" in a HEL Classroom; 12. Discovering the Past for Yourself: Corpora, Data-​Driven Learning, and the History of English
13. Word Classes in the History of English14. Dictionaries and the History of English; Part Four: Centuries in a Semester: HEL's Chronological Conventions; 15. English Is an Indo-​European Language: Linguistic Prehistory in the History of English Classroom; 16. Serving Time in "HELL": Diachronic Exercises for Literature Students; 17. What Has Beowulf to Do with English? (Let's Ask Lady Philology!); 18. Starting from Now: Teaching the Recent History of English; Part Five: Including "Englishes" in the History of English; 19. From Old English to World Englishes
20. An Ecological Account of the Emergence and Evolution of English21. Researching World Englishes in HEL Courses: Neologisms, Newspapers, and Novels; 22. Situating World Englishes into a History of English Course; 23. Incorporating American English into the History of English; 24. Teaching Diversity and Change in the History of English; 25. Our Subject Is Each Other: Teaching HEL to ESL, EFL, and Non-​Standard English Speakers; Part Six : Using Media and Performance in the History of Eng; 26. Approaching the History of English Through Material Culture; 27. Teaching Original Pronunciation
28. Engaging Multimedia in the HEL Classroom29. Teaching the History of English Online: Open Education and Student Engagement; Appendix: Resources for Teaching; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary The History of the English Language is a traditional course whose instructors are tasked with balancing various institutional, curricular, and student needs. Additionally, the course's prodigious subject poses challenges for new as well as veteran instructors. It encompasses a broad chronological, geographic, and disciplinary scope and, in the twenty-first-century classroom, has come to account for English's transformative relationship with the internet and social media. In Approaches to Teaching the History of the English Language, experienced instructors explain the influences and ingenuity
Notes "First Edition published in 1996"--Title page verso
"First Edition published in Paperback 2001"--Title page verso
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 20, 2017)
Subject English language -- History.
English language -- Study and teaching.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- General.
English language
English language -- Study and teaching
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Hayes, Mary, 1972- editor.
Burkette, Allison Paige, editor
LC no. 2017014915
ISBN 9780190611071
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