RADICAL TEFL

EFLT HISTORIES / REFERENCES
Some work on the history of EFLT, and from mainstream education
Carr, W. , (1997), Professing education in a post-modern age, Journal of Philosophy of Education,
31/2. See esp. pp. 320-25, on pre-modern history of education and of enquiry.
Carr, W. , (1983), Can educational research be scientific?, Journal of Philosophy of Education, 17/1.
On different traditions in educational research, also, asks if education can be 'researched'.
Castagnaro, PJ, (2006), The Audio-Lingual Method and Behaviourism: From Misunderstanding to
Myth, Applied Linguistics, 27/3. History done by going to original source. (also see Swan
2007)
Eastman, George (1967), The ideologising of theories: John Dewey’s Educational Theory as a case
in point, Educational Theory 17/2, esp. pp 103-115. On ideology in education.
Howatt, APH with Widdowson HG, (1984, 2004), A history of English Language Teaching, OUP
Hunter, D. & Smith R. , (2012), Unpackaging the past: 'CLT' through ELTJ Keywords, ELT
Journal, 66/4. An historical study of an idea in EFLT through analysing the frequency of
the use of some key words (Also see the paper by Richard Smith (2016) in Applied
Linguistics 37/1)
Mackay, W (1967), Language Teaching Analysis. Indiana University Press, There is a section of
about 10 pages on 20 th century ELT History, covering the same area as Richards (below)
Phillipson, R. , (1993), Linguistic Imperialism. Oxford University Press
Richards Jack C. , (1984), The Secret Life of Methods, TESOL Quarterly, 18/1. Or see Mackay.
Swan, M. , (2007), History is not what happened: the case of contrastive analysis, in Swan (2012),
first published in International Journal of Applied Linguistics, 17/3
Swan, M. , (2012), Thinking about language teaching, OUP. Esp. for articles 10, 13 & Swan
(2007)
White, RV (1989), The ELT Curriculum: Design, Innovation and Management, esp. pp. 83-84,
System, 17/1. On the historical influence of Applied Linguistics on EFLT
Some work on methods of enquiry in history
Carr, E. H. , (1961, 1986) What is History?, esp. ch. 1, on 'facts' in history. Palgrave Macmillan.
Collinwood, R. G. , (1946), The Idea of History: key text which challenges 'scientific' approaches to
history, and summarises alternative approaches from Croce, Dilthey and Vico.. See part V,
esp. pp. 210-17; 269-74; 287-93, for Collingwood's thinking. Also see pp. 63-66 on Vico's
method of 'entering in'; on Croce [4. iv]; on Dilthey; & pp. 81-88 .
Evans, Richard . J. , (1997), In defence of history, Granta Books. Ch 2. Clear presentation of
issues in historical method. Professor of History at the University of Cambridge.
Haddock, BA (1980), An Introduction to Historical Thought, Arnold, chs. 5, 6 [on Vico] & 10 (esp
p. 177/81); also, chs. 11 & 12. On ways of approaching and doing history.
Marwick, Arthur, (2001), The new nature of history: knowledge, evidence, language. Opposed to
post-modern influences. Esp. pp. 1-30. Palgrave Macmillan.
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