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This blog was set up as a personal project to record my study notes online. The large majority of the writings are those of the authors mentioned in the posts.

Thursday, August 25, 2016

Jacques Bellot - Refugee teacher

The sixteenth-century Huguenot émigré Jacques Bellot played a seminal role in the history of English and French language tuition, and is remembered for composing some of the first descriptive grammars for learners of both languages. His methods remained in use throughout the seventeenth century after being incorporated into the often-reprinted Grammaire angloise (1625).
He devoted himself to the teaching of English to the immigrant French community in London as well as teaching French to the native population.  
A.P.R Howatt - A History of English Language Teaching (1984:13)


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