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Italy ELT Archive @italyeltarchive.bsky.social · Jun 7

It’s a wrap! Many thanks to the Organisers at the University of Insubria for this year’s ICHoLLT! It’s been a great event, and a true pleasure to attend so many inspiring paper presentations!

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Internet Archive @archive.org · Mar 13

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Italy ELT Archive @italyeltarchive.bsky.social · Feb 27

📣📣 New post on our website! 📣📣
Read about the invited talk given by prof. Luciana Pedrazzini (our PI) at the international seminar "A sociolinguistic historicisation of foreign language teaching" held in Barcelona on 8 January!
italy-elt-archive.unimi.it/a-sociolingu...

A sociolinguistic historicisation of foreign language teaching – International seminar at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 8 January 2024

Earlier this year, prof. Luciana Pedrazzini, the co-founder (with prof. Andrea Nava) of the Italy ELT Archive, and principal investigator in the project, was invited to give a[...]

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Achilleas Kostoulas @achilleaskostoulas.com · Jun 3

The Makerere Report is one of those frequently cited documents that most only know indirectly (e.g. through criticism in R. Phillipson’s Linguistic Imperialism).

Huge thanks to @richardsmithelt.bsky.social for making the full document available in the ELT Archive ⬇️

warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/al/r...

Miscellaneous documents

Miscellaneous documents digitised and uploaded from the ELT Archive physical collection (see also 'Biographies' under Resources)

warwick.ac.uk

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Richard Smith @richardsmithelt.bsky.social · Jun 16

I really like this new book by David B. Wilson for its fresh approach to the history of english language teaching via 'literary TEFLing' www.cambridgescholars.com/product/978-.... You can read sample pages here: www.cambridgescholars.com/resources/pd...

The Experience of Expatriate English Language Teaching - Cambridge Scholars Publishing

www.cambridgescholars.com

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María José García Folgado @mjgarciafolgado.bsky.social · Jun 9

Journée d'étude internationale "Langues et histoire: Un dialogue interdisciplinaire" (26-27/08/2025), sur les liens entre langues et histoire, avec des perspectives croisées en sociolinguistique, anthropologie, didactique et histoire.
#histlx
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María José García Folgado @mjgarciafolgado.bsky.social · Jun 16

APPEL Colloque SIHFLES 28-29 mai 2026 (Prague) - « Nationalismes et enseignement des langues : le cas du français langue étrangère en Europe et dans le monde (1780-1950) »
Soumission des résumés: [email protected] avant le 31 octobre 2025.
#histlx
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Henry Sweet Society @henrysweetsoc.bsky.social · Mar 26

Oh hello! The Henry Sweet Society is now on BlueSky✨ Come one, come all!

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María José García Folgado @mjgarciafolgado.bsky.social · May 6

Continúa M. Luisa De la Rosa Reimúndez (U. Complutense) hablando de la recepción del método Alge para la enseñanza de lenguas extranjeras en la prensa española de inicios del XX
#histlx #LinPePrensa
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María José García Folgado @mjgarciafolgado.bsky.social · May 6

Cierra la primera franja Mariángeles García Aranda (U. Computense) con “De nuevo sobre la prensa histórica y los métodos de enseñanza de lenguas: Pelayo Vizuete Picón y Rafael Díaz de la Cortina”
#histlx #LinPePrensa
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Marsh's Library @marshslibrary.bsky.social · Mar 20

Guillaume Postel's Linguarum Duodecim promises an Introduction to the alphabets of 12 languages, but can you name those printed on the title page?

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Goran @santpolyglot.bsky.social · Nov 27

A collection of Starter Packs related to languages, language learning, polyglots, linguistics, multilingualism and everything in between.

If you are passionate about languages or just curious to explore, this is the space for you!

#langsky

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Richard Smith @richardsmithelt.bsky.social · Jan 12

Just published: _Paul Passy: Un linguiste révolutionnaire_ by Jacques Durand and Chantal Lyche @hiphilangsci.bsky.social
@holltnet.bsky.social Passy (1859–1940) founded the International Phonetic Association (IPA) and was a leader of language teaching reform
warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/al/r...

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Josephine McDermott @josephinemcdermott.bsky.social · Jan 7

Delighted that Archive on 4: Do You Speak English? is a Radio Times @radiotimes.bsky.social Pick of the Week. So many World Service gems uncovered including China’s Follow Me. Radio 4, Saturday at 20:00

Cutting from the Radio Times showing Walter and Connie

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Richard Smith @richardsmithelt.bsky.social · Jan 12

Warwick ELT Archive page warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/al/r... - information about English by TV programmes (1960s–1980s), and links to YouTube videos

If you're in the UK, there is a radio documentary (11.1.25) – #DoYouSpeakEnglish? www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... - about BBC English by radio and TV

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HoLLTnet @holltnet.bsky.social · Jan 8

A new blog-post from the Warwick ELT Archive, by Yi Zhang, who, with Xi Li, has been leading in the compilation of these bibliographies and the catalogue of a developing collection of Chinese textbooks for English: blogs.warwick.ac.uk/elt_archive/...

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Richard Smith @richardsmithelt.bsky.social · Dec 31

Warwick ELT Archive December newsletter – 2024 in review! blogs.warwick.ac.uk/files/elt_ar...

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Coffee & Donatus @coffeeanddonatus.bsky.social · Nov 27

Just realized I did not have an image highlighting the marginal annotations (and the worming, of course).

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Coffee & Donatus @coffeeanddonatus.bsky.social · Nov 28

Who knew that practicing Latin grammar might be the key to family harmony on #Thanksgiving? Percival Leigh has helpful hints to ensure 'relatives agree' in his illustrated Comic Latin Grammar (London, 1840).

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Coffee & Donatus @coffeeanddonatus.bsky.social · Nov 30

No correction feature for my big goof—I meant to say voice not tense. :-(

Schoolroom scene from James Hutchinson's The Juvenile Grammar for the use of Schools and Private Families (London: Wright, Simpkin, and Co., 1859).

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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · Dec 2

Anyone know how common it is to see copies of Lily's Grammar interleaved and annotated in this way? A quick search reveals a few other 17th- and 18th-century examples. @coffeeanddonatus.bsky.social, any thoughts?

John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · Dec 2

Love this, from a Latin grammar annotated by a father for his son in 1747. 'Arma Virumque cano, quoth Virgil, a very honest sort of a Gentleman'.

Eighteenth-century handwriting which reads:

"Then soar, my son, with Pegasean Wing
Nor fear to say, Arms and the Man I sing

Arma Virumque cano, quoth Virgil,
a very honest sort of a Gentleman.'

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Coffee & Donatus @coffeeanddonatus.bsky.social · Dec 15

…struggling against knowledge-hungry moths and specters of a repeating past in Gabriel García Márquez’s “One Hundred Years of Solitude” (1967):

"...a wise Catalonian had a bookstore where there was a Sanskrit primer, which would be eaten by the moths within six years if he did not hurry to buy it."

Graphically manipulated detail image of the cover of Gabriel García Márquez’s “One Hundred Years of Solitude.”

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Carin Ruff @carinr.bsky.social · Dec 15

In HMS Surprise, Stephen has a "Fort William grammar," which I suspect is this book:

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Coffee & Donatus @coffeeanddonatus.bsky.social · Dec 7

A wonderful, likely Italian, 13th-century Latin grammar fragment. The author remains unidentified, but the text reflects Priscian's influence and references Aristotelian ideas. Once part of the Marvin L. Colker Collection, it was sold at auction recently and is now in a private collection.

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María José García Folgado @mjgarciafolgado.bsky.social · Dec 14

Pues mira, de esa misma obra.
Échale un ojo a la página de Richard Hudson, xq hay cosas… 🥰

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