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New Online Resources Available for The History of English

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We are pleased to announce the addition of a new range of Teachers'-Only articles on the Companion Website for Stephan Gramley's The History of English: An Introduction. These new sections of the website contains three elements, which are intended to support teaching of the subject.
 

The new Instructors' section of the website, which accompanies The History of English: An Introduction, contains three elements. Each offers suggestions which are intended to support your teaching. You are, of course, completely free to pick and choose among the material supplied here as best suits your teaching aims and interests.

  1. Study Projects are short suggestions (all four on a single page) about possible projects you might instigate to help your students follow the development of one or the other of four aspects of change in English throughout its history and spread. The idea behind this is to help them develop a feeling for the continuing effects of change.
  2. Teaching Points are available as a resource for each of the thirteen chapters. The points selected were the ones Gramley used in teaching this book in the second term of the 2011–12 academic year. He found it useful to concentrate on certain points only in order to help the students cope with the — for them — overwhelming amount of new information. The Teaching Points draw largely on material in the respective chapters, repeating some of it and including some maps, tables, and figures from HoE. There is, however, a certain amount of supplementary material. Where this is the case Gramley has been careful to document his sources.
  3. Study Questions are also available for each of the chapters. Each of them consists of suggested answers to the study questions given at the ends of the respective chapters. The answers vary considerably in length, and some of them contain supplementary material not to be found in HoE. Where this is the case, the sources Gramley has drawn on are given.

The Teacher Resources are just a selection of what can be found on the Companion Website - which also includes an interactive timeline, chapter links, texts and exercises, audio resources and much more. To find out more click here



 

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  1. The History of English

    An Introduction

    By Stephan Gramley

    The History of English: An Introduction provides a chronological analysis of the linguistic, social, and cultural development of the English language from before its establishment in Britain around the year 450 to the present. Each chapter represents a new stage in the development of the language...

    Published December 13th 2011 by Routledge