PDF #49 – A.P.R. Howatt-A History of English Language Teaching -Oxford University Press (1984)
The history of English teaching is a vast subject, and this is a relatively short book which of necessity has had to adopt a specific and therefore limited perspective. the spread of English round the world in the wake of trade, empire-building, migration, and settlement has ensured the teaching of the language a role, sometimes central, sometimes peripheral, in the educational history of virtually every country on earth. the European focus of this book is, therefore, only a small part of the history of the subject, hence the indefinite article in the title.