Professional Documents
Culture Documents
of Language
Teaching Methods
A lecture course by
Dr. Poór Zoltán
Topic 2
Historical aspects
of foreign language
teaching
Changes in ‘bilinguism’ (1)
1. Ancient Times
• Greek and Latin
2. The Middle Ages
• Latin and Vernacular (local) languages
2. Renaissance
• Vernacular (local) languages and Latin
2. Reformation and Counter-reformation
• Vernacular (local) and national
languages
• National languages and Latin
• National languages and ‘modern’
languages
Waves of the spreading of languages