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1396, May 29

Short description:

First extant manual for teaching French in England

Medium description:

First extant manual for teaching French in England.

The author was an unknown person from Bury St. Edmunds. It is a collection of conversations that travellers from England to France might expect to encounter.

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history of teaching

in Britain

FLT

Howatt, A. P. R. (1984). A History of English Language Teaching. Oxford: Oxford University Press [p.3]
Howatt, A. P. R. & Widdowson, H. G. (2004). A History of English Language Teaching 2nd edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press [p.9]