History of Language Teaching from The Spanish-American War Until the Sputnik Moment

H. Jay Siskin has most recently served as a lecturer at the University of California Santa Cruz, USA. His research addresses foreign language pedagogy. He is the author of textbooks in French and Spanish.

• 1. The Beginnings of the American Century.- 2. Reforms and resolutions: Language teaching during the final decades of the nineteenth century.- 3. The Struggle for Standards.- 4.  Trends in the Teens and Twenties: Spanish and the Call for Practical Education.- 5. Of Huns and Guns: The U.S. War against Germany and the German Language.- 6. Arming the Lost Generation: Linguistic and Cultural Preoccupations in Wartime.- 7. Of Shibboleths and Zealots: Methodological Contestationss during the Interwar Period.- 8. Americans, Awake to Language Needs! Language and Area Studies during the Second World War.- 9. Big Reds at the Big Red: Cornell and the “Communists”.