Introduction

Chapter 1.How can perspectives from Applied Linguistic Historiography improve our understanding of innovation?2

Richard Smith

Tim Giesler

Part I.Product innovation

Chapter 2.Tart–scriblita–torta–torte–torta–tortilha: A piece of cake! Acquiring lexis in R. John Andree’s (1725) A vocabulary, in six languages24

Giovanni Iamartino

Lucia Berti

Chapter 3.Teaching phraseology in the 19th century: John Charles Tarver’s Royal Phraseological English–French, French–English Dictionary43

Stefania Nuccorini

Chapter 4.Innovation in monolingual English learner’s dictionaries: A historical perspective59

Reinhard Heuberger

Part II.Innovation through scientific discovery

Chapter 5.La linguistique appliquée: Innovation in language learning/teaching research in France (1955–85)82

Shona Whyte

Chapter 6.Classroom-oriented teacher research in modern languages: An innovation of the Reform Movement104

Friederike Klippel

Part III.Oscillations along a continuum

Chapter 7.Change without innovation? Language teaching in late 19th‑century Germany122

Tim Giesler

Sabine Doff

Chapter 8.“Reflection on language”: Innovation and tradition in ELT textbooks in Italy in the 1980s and 1990s137

Luciana Pedrazzini

Part IV.Adaptation in specific contexts

Chapter 9.Describing and learning the Chinese languages: Innovation in Western language pedagogical tools of the late Ming and late Qing periods164

Mariarosaria Gianninoto

Chapter 10.Curriculum innovation through concept borrowing: The case of “learner autonomy” in English language education in Chinese universities (1978–2007)180

Shi PU

Chapter 11.Beyond written texts: History as told by the objects of modern foreign language classes in a Brazilian school199

Marta Banducci Rahe

Index

Table of contents

Introduction

Part I.Product innovation

Part II.Innovation through scientific discovery

Part III.Oscillations along a continuum

Part IV.Adaptation in specific contexts