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Approaches to Teaching the History of the English Language: Pedagogy in Practice

Mary Hayes and Allison Burkette

Abstract

Approaches to Teaching the History of the English Language: Pedagogy in Practice consists of commissioned chapters, each of which focuses on an issue relevant to teaching the History of the English Language (HEL) in contemporary colleges and universities. The volume reads as a series of “master classes” taught by experienced instructors who explain the pedagogical challenges that inspired resourceful teaching practices. Although its chapters are authored by seasoned academics, many of whom are preeminent scholars in their individual fields, the book is designed for instructors at any career st ... More

Keywords: History of the English Language, pedagogy, literature and linguistics, multidisciplinarity, English Studies

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2017 Print ISBN-13: 9780190611040
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: October 2017 DOI:10.1093/oso/9780190611040.001.0001

Authors

Affiliations are at time of print publication.

Mary Hayes, editor
Associate Professor of English and Director of Medieval Studies, University of Mississippi

Allison Burkette, editor
Associate Professor of Linguistics, Graduate Program Director of Linguistics, University of Mississippi

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Contents

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Front Matter

Title Pages

Dedication

Acknowledgments

List of Contributors

Chapter 1 Introduction

Mary Hayes and Allison Burkette

Part One Reflections on Teaching the History of the English Language

Chapter 2 German, Handwriting, and Other Things I Learned to Keep in Mind When Teaching the History of English

John McWhorter

Chapter 3 Restoring Rhythm

Thomas Cable

Chapter 4 Teaching the History of English

Rajend Mesthrie

Chapter 5 How Is HEL Relevant to Me?

Sonja L. Lanehart

Part Two The Value of Teaching the History of English: Rethinking Curricula

Chapter 6 Philology, Theory, and Critical Thinking Through the History of the English Language

Matthew Giancarlo

Chapter 7 The History of the English Language and the Medievalist

Seth Lerer

Chapter 8 English and I

Michael R. Dressman

Part Three Research Paradigms and Pedagogical Practices

Chapter 9 Historical Pragmatics in the Teaching of the History of English

Leslie K. Arnovick

Chapter 10 Using Principles of Construction Grammar in the History of English Classroom

Graeme Trousdale

Chapter 11 Addressing “Emergence” in a HEL Classroom

William A. Kretzschmar, Jr.

Chapter 12 Discovering the Past for Yourself

Jukka Tyrkkö

Chapter 13 Word Classes in the History of English

David Denison

Chapter 14 Dictionaries and the History of English

Michael Adams

Part Four Centuries in a Semester: HEL’s Chronological Conventions

Chapter 15 English Is an Indo-European Language

Timothy J. Pulju

Chapter 16 Serving Time in “HELL”

Mary Hayes

Chapter 17 What Has Beowulf to Do with English? (Let’s Ask Lady Philology!)

Haruko Momma

Chapter 18 Starting from Now

Joan Beal

Part Five Including “Englishes” in the History of English

Chapter 19 From Old English to World Englishes

Benjamin A. Saltzman

Chapter 20 An Ecological Account of the Emergence and Evolution of English

Salikoko S. Mufwene

Chapter 21 Researching World Englishes in HEL Courses

Carol Percy

Chapter 22 Situating World Englishes into a History of English Course

Rakesh M. Bhatt

Chapter 23 Incorporating American English into the History of English

Allison Burkette

Chapter 24 Teaching Diversity and Change in the History of English

Rob Penhallurick

Chapter 25 Our Subject Is Each Other

Matthew Sergi

Part Six Using Media and Performance in the History of English Classroom

Chapter 26 Approaching the History of English Through Material Culture

Jonathan Davis-Secord

Chapter 27 Teaching Original Pronunciation

David Crystal

Chapter 28 Engaging Multimedia in the HEL Classroom

Natalie Gerber

Chapter 29 Teaching the History of English Online

Philip Seargeant*

End Matter

Appendix Resources for TeachingCompiled and annotated by Mary Hayes and Allison Burkette

Notes

Bibliography

Index