Experience based linguistic history
Exercises from the ELTE Benkő Loránd Language History Student Workshop on Language History in Education
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.21030/anyp.2022.2.4Keywords:
history of language in public education, history of language in secondary schools, history of language exercises, workbook, example bookAbstract
The ELTE Applied Language History Research Group had been established in 2015, focusing on, among other things, the role of language history in public education. This sub-topic has since become a research area in its own right, and a research group entitled ′History of Language in Education′ was set up under the leadership of the ELTE Benkő Loránd Language History Students′ Workshop. The focus of the research was on teachers′ and students′ attitudes towards language history. Interviews with teachers of Hungarian language and literature were conducted in order to find out what topics teachers touched upon within language history, what difficulties they encountered and what support they expected from the university. The most frequent response to the latter was that it would be a great help to have a collection of language history exercises for secondary school students. The research team tried to meet this demand, and since spring 2020 more than 200 exercises have been designed and will soon be published as a collection of exercises.