Power Pedagogy & Practice [antikvár]

INTRODUCTIONThe main aims of this selection of articles from Volumes 42-49 of ELT Journal are to draw attention to some of the major preoccupations of the English language teaching profession in the period 1988-1995, and to focus on themes and topics which are likely to be of continuing interest and importance in the future. At the same time, we hope to provide a useful resource for teachers, trainee teachers, teacher educators, students, and researchers.The publication of this book coincides with the 50th anniversary of ELT Journal: the first issue of what was then called English Language Teaching appeared in October 1946, published by the British Council. There is no attempt here to trace lines of development from that first issue through to todaya historical study of ELT Journal would be a research project in its own right. But it is perhaps appropriate to compare the preoccupations of the first editor, A. S. Hornby, and his contributors with those of us, fifty years on, who owe them so much.As Widdowson (1986: 265) pointed out on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of ELT Journal, readers of that first issue might find 'curiosities which catch the eye, dated oddities of another age'. Yet some of the themes and topics discussed thenmethodology, audio-visual aids, grammar, pronunciationwould strike a chord today. In that sense, many of the themes and topics in this book cannot be said to be new. So it is not too fanciful to suppose that some of the contributions in the first issue in 1946, for example 'Linguistic Research' (an editorial), 'Linguistic Pedagogy' (an article), and Language as a Social and