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Listening
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Professor Hawkins, one of the foremost figures in language teaching, describes his 'journey into language' through a series of key personal – and often moving – episodes drawn from the sweep of 20th century European history, encompassing the Spanish Civil War, the Basque refugee children, the rise of Nazism, World War in Europe and North Africa, and the bridge-building that followed. In the first of these episodes, Eric Hawkins finds himself in republican Spain listening to the poet Federico García Lorca perform with his travelling theatre company at the newly formed International University. He develops not only a love of language learning, but of language itself as a defining characteristic of our humanity. Eric Hawkins writes in a modest, self-deprecating style which belies his importance in inspiring generations of language students and contributing to educational developments and debates over 50 years. His book is an important restatement of the need to cherish language and culture at a time when linguistic and cultural differences all too often divide humanity rather than show us what we have in common. Contents Foreword | Introduction | Listening to Lorca | How it began | Lessons from Liverpool | Reading Cervantes | Two German families | Preparing to teach | The Basque children | Languages in uniform | Two schoolmaster Lieutenants | Starting again | Rebuilding bridges | Breaking the language lookstep | Jan Komensky | Henry Sweet | A language teaching centre | Why not rebuild Babel? | Envoi Indulge in some reading for pleasure! 1999 | 304pp | ISBN-13: 978-1-902031-31-6 | ISBN-10: 1-902031-31-8 | £15 | Order this title online |
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