Teaching and Learning Foreign Languages in Britain provides a comprehensive history, in English, of language teaching and learning in the UK from the year 1600 to the year 2000. In this book McLelland offers an overview of changing approaches, methods and techniques in language teaching and learning, as well as the first history of the social context of foreign language education in Britain. The importance of the impact of classroom-external factors on developments in language teaching and learning are also taken into account, particularly policies and public examination...