Programmed learning and the language teacher: Some implications and suggestions for the use of programmes in the teaching of a foreign language

by Anthony P.R. Howatt

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Published January 1, 1969

About the author

Anthony P.R. Howatt has retired as Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics at the University of Edinburgh, of which he is a graduate. After leaving university, he taught English as a foreign language in Cartagena, Spain, and in Cologne, Germany, returning to Edinburgh in the early 1960s to study for the Diploma in Applied Linguistics. After a period in Sweden, he returned once more to Edinburgh to take up an appointment in the Department of Applied Linguistics where he was Head of Department from 1990 to 1993.

His publications include A History of English Language Teaching, published by Oxford University Press, and his current research interests include the history of language in education.