Introduction

Mary Hayes, Allison Burkette

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingForeword/postscript

Abstract

This introductory chapter addresses the challenges and opportunities that come with teaching the History of the English language (HEL). HEL is a traditional course whose instructors are tasked with balancing a great number of institutional, curricular, and student needs. Additionally, the course's prodigious subject poses challenges for new as well as veteran instructors, few of whom have comprehensive training in English linguistics, literature, and the language's historical varieties. The course 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 behind their own successful pedagogical practices. This introduction explains the value of that approach. Additionally, it includes a survey of the volume's scope and organization.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationApproaches to Teaching the History of the English Language
Subtitle of host publicationPedagogy in Practice
Pages2-10
Number of pages9
ISBN (Electronic)9780190611040
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 1 2017

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© Oxford University Press 2017. All rights reserved.

Keywords

  • English literature
  • English studies
  • History of the English language
  • Linguistics
  • Pedagogy

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Arts and Humanities
  • General Social Sciences

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