Essay On History Of English Language Teaching

The history of the English Language Teaching (ELF) has its roots in the 18th century. English as a foreign language has become interesting because educated readers were able to read formative works like politics, science, philosophy, theology and art. For being an educated reader one was supposed to read original written English texts. English has developed to a school subject in the 19th century. Furthermore, English and teaching English has expended in the 20th century. Nevertheless, this expansion of the English language in Germany would never have been happened if the teaching persons had not use the right and efficient methods. The method itself, or better said the methodology consists of concepts with its own history. Those concepts are also necessary for language acquisition. Generally, teachers should be aware of the history of

More over, one is able to know, for example why something of the past has become successful or not. For instance, one can regard new racism fashions toward refugee as a current example with caution. The past has shown that political oppression and racism has lead to unhuman behaviour. Nevertheless, one can not learn a language without the cultural background in context. More over, studying the English Teaching History consists also of individual findings. Someone can explore an interesting top which one would like to take a deeper look at it. On the other hand, it is possible to compare current problems with former issues and outlining similarities or differences. Knowing about the history of English teaching increases in some cases also self-confidence of a foreign language teacher. One realizes that English has got a long history and tradition in Germany and it is always important to know more than only the basic