Scope, aims and activities of HoLLT.net
The overall goal of the AILA Research Network for the History of Language Learning and Teaching (‘HoLLT.net’ for short) is to stimulate research into the history of language learning and teaching within applied linguistics internationally. Such research will help furnish necessary historical perspectives for professional reflection on how language education is or should be carried out today, including – for example -- in the areas of appropriate development of language education policies, curricular and textbook reform initiatives and teaching methodologies for different contexts, which can thereby be historically as well as sociologically and culturally defined and assessed.
HoLLT.net will be dedicated to promoting and disseminating historical research into, at least, the following domains:
· how languages have been taught and learned;
· which languages have been taught and learned, and where and why;
· the sociology of language learning and teaching: who taught and learned in the past;
· what has been taught and learned;
· how language learning and teaching have been theorized
· how language teachers have been trained or educated
HoLLT.net will encourage comparisons across language teaching and learning traditions and across nations and regions. Our principal aims, then, are to:
· identify research which has already been done worldwide and disseminate information about this;
· disseminate findings of historical research as it is carried out;
· promote research in the area of History of Language Learning and Teaching – particularly by supporting
new scholars in this field and by helping to publicize and thereby potentially strengthen existing national or
language-specific associations;
· investigate potential for new kinds of cross-disciplinary applied linguistic research;
· create opportunities for research on similar aspects or periods across regions;
· seek research funding opportunities for development of the network and for international research
collaborations;
· promote discussion and development of appropriate research methodologies in this area of applied
linguistics.
In order to work towards these aims our currently envisaged activities are to:
· develop a website;
· construct a freely accessible online bibliography of pertinent publications;
· build up an electronic distribution and discussion list;
· develop a Facebook page specifically targeted at and encouraging sharing of concerns and networking
among PhD students and early career researchers:
· hold annual meetings and organize a symposium at the AILA 2017 Congress.
· publish papers from the AILA 2017 Congress symposium.
The network is free to join and open to all with an interest in researching the history of language learning, teaching or assessment in any context or language tradition.
The overall goal of the AILA Research Network for the History of Language Learning and Teaching (‘HoLLT.net’ for short) is to stimulate research into the history of language learning and teaching within applied linguistics internationally. Such research will help furnish necessary historical perspectives for professional reflection on how language education is or should be carried out today, including – for example -- in the areas of appropriate development of language education policies, curricular and textbook reform initiatives and teaching methodologies for different contexts, which can thereby be historically as well as sociologically and culturally defined and assessed.
HoLLT.net will be dedicated to promoting and disseminating historical research into, at least, the following domains:
· how languages have been taught and learned;
· which languages have been taught and learned, and where and why;
· the sociology of language learning and teaching: who taught and learned in the past;
· what has been taught and learned;
· how language learning and teaching have been theorized
· how language teachers have been trained or educated
HoLLT.net will encourage comparisons across language teaching and learning traditions and across nations and regions. Our principal aims, then, are to:
· identify research which has already been done worldwide and disseminate information about this;
· disseminate findings of historical research as it is carried out;
· promote research in the area of History of Language Learning and Teaching – particularly by supporting
new scholars in this field and by helping to publicize and thereby potentially strengthen existing national or
language-specific associations;
· investigate potential for new kinds of cross-disciplinary applied linguistic research;
· create opportunities for research on similar aspects or periods across regions;
· seek research funding opportunities for development of the network and for international research
collaborations;
· promote discussion and development of appropriate research methodologies in this area of applied
linguistics.
In order to work towards these aims our currently envisaged activities are to:
· develop a website;
· construct a freely accessible online bibliography of pertinent publications;
· build up an electronic distribution and discussion list;
· develop a Facebook page specifically targeted at and encouraging sharing of concerns and networking
among PhD students and early career researchers:
· hold annual meetings and organize a symposium at the AILA 2017 Congress.
· publish papers from the AILA 2017 Congress symposium.
The network is free to join and open to all with an interest in researching the history of language learning, teaching or assessment in any context or language tradition.
