Approaches to Teaching the History of the English Language

Mary Hayes is Associate Professor of English and the Director of Medieval Studies at the University of Mississippi, where she teaches graduate and undergraduate courses including two versions of the History of the English Language.Allison Burkette is Associate Professor of Linguistics as well as the director of undergraduate and graduate programs in linguistics at the University of Mississippi.

• 1. Mary Hayes and Allison Burkette, Introduction Part One: Reflections on Teaching the History of the English Language2. John McWhorter, German, Handwriting, and Other Things I Learned to Keep in Mind When Teaching the History of English 3. Thomas Cable, Restoring Rhythm: An Auditory Imagination of the History of English 4. Rajend Mesthrie, Teaching the History of English: A South African Perspective 5. Sonja L. Lanehart, How Is HEL Relevant to Me? Part Two: The Value of Teaching the History of English: Rethinking Curricula6. Matthew Giancarlo, Philology, Theory, and Critical Thinking through the History of the English Language 7. Seth Lerer, The History of the English Language and the Medievalist 8. Michael R. Dressman, English and I: Finding the History of the English Language in the Class Part Three: Research Paradigms and Pedagogical Practices9. Leslie Arnovick, Historical Pragmatics in the Teaching of the History of English 10. Graeme Trousdale, Using Principles of Construction Grammar in the History of English Classroom 11. William A. Kretzschmar, Addressing 'Emergence' in a HEL Classroom 12. Jukka Tyrkkö, Discovering the Past for Yourself: Corpora, Data-driven Learning, and the History of English 13. David Denison, Word Classes in the History of English 14. Michael Adams, Dictionaries and the History of English Part Four: Centuries in a Semester: HEL's Chronological Conventions15. Timothy J. Pulju, English Is an Indo-European Language: Linguistic Prehistory in the History of English Classroom 16. Mary Hayes, Serving Time in HELL: Diachronic Exercises for Literature Students 17. Haruko Momma, What Has Beowulf to Do with English? (Let's Ask Lady Philology!) 18. Joan Beal, Starting from Now: Teaching the Recent History of English Part Five: Including 'Englishes' in the History of English19. Benjamin A. Saltzman, From Old English to World Englishes 20. Salikoko S. Mufwene, An Ecological Account of the Emergence and Evolution of English 21. Carol Percy, Researching World Englishes in HEL Courses: Neologisms, Newspapers, and Novels 22. Rakesh M. Bhatt, Situating World Englishes into a History of English Course 23. Allison Burkette, Incorporating American English into the History of English 24. Robert Penhallurick, Teaching Diversity and Change in the History of English 25. Matthew Sergi, Our Subject is Each Other: Teaching HEL to ESL, EFL, and Non-Standard English Speakers Part Six: Using Media and Performance in the History of English Classroom26. Jonathan Davis-Secord, Approaching the History of English through Material Culture 27. David Crystal, Teaching Original Pronunciation (OP) 28. Natalie Gerber, Engaging Multimedia in the HEL Classroom 29. Philip Seargeant, Teaching the History of English Online: Open Education and Student Engagement Appendix C: Resources for TeachingCompiled and annotated by Mary Hayes and Allison Burkette General Bibliography Index

this is a sound, readable, coherent, and useful book, stimulating in practical ways, genuinely pedagogical, and a current representation of many possible visions of HEL.