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Pedagogical Linguistics
Vol. 1:1 (2020) ► pp.8–33

Towards a pedagogical linguistics

| University College London

Pedagogical linguistics is a two-way bridge between linguistics and education, carrying information not only from linguistics to education, but also in the other direction, where linguistics needs to explore the impact of education on language. The paper reviews the history of this bridge, and especially in the 19th and 20th centuries, arguing that the bridge worked well in the 19th but that it disintegrated in the 20th with the rise of linguistics and education as distinct research fields. The challenge for the 21st century is to rebuild it in a sustainable way.

Keywords: linguistics, education, parsing, sentence diagram, communicative teaching, grammar-translation
Article outline
  • 1.What is pedagogical linguistics?
  • 2.A brief history of linguistics and pedagogy
  • 3.The 19th century: Innovation and integration
    • 3.1Sentence analysis
    • 3.2Towards a unified syntax
    • 3.3Syntactic tables and diagrams
    • 3.4Language teaching methods
    • 3.5Organisations
  • 4.The 20th century: Disintegration
    • 4.1People
    • 4.2Institutions
    • 4.3Values
    • 4.4Research
    • 4.5Disintegration
  • 5.The 21st century: Reintegration
  • Notes
  • References


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Published online: 17 February 2020
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