The context of teaching Spanish as a foreign language in the United States: pedagogical and cultural implications in the adaptation of the Pestalozzi method (1884-1918)
Abstract
In 1884, Professor James Henry Worman published the first volume of his natural method of language teaching which, according to the cover, was an adaptation of the method created by Swiss educator Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi. The volumes that make up the Worman method textbook series were published for use at the Chautauqua Institution, a center founded in 1874 for the comprehensive training of teachers, a context that is essential to understanding the selection of content and its presentation.
With the purpose of contributing to the history of textbooks for teaching Spanish as a foreign language, to the teaching of Spanish in North America, to the materials that were used, and to the adaptation of the Pestalozzi method in the United States, this paper analyzes the Worman method using a mixed historiographical methodology that El contexto en la enseñanza del español como lengua extranjera en EE.UU.: implicaciones pedagógicas y culturales en la adaptación del método Pestalozzi (1884-1918) allows for the description, explanation, and interpretation of linguistic texts in their context of production.
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