Historia y tradición en la enseñanza y aprendizaje de lenguas extranjeras en Europa (IX): Siglo XIX, hacia el presente de la didáctica de lenguas modernas.

Abstract

This article aims to present an overview of the teaching of foreign languages in Europe during the nineteenth century. We will undertake this task following the historical method we have applied in all the previous articles. That is, through analysis and illustration of the evolution of linguistic material designed to teach and learn foreign languages in Western Europe in this century.

After the humanistic period, as it is known, the history of this discipline developes around national traditions; in the eighteenth century European languages having taken over Latin, the dominant foreign language until the sixteenth century. The development of this discipline to the present is based on this fact. After the Enlightenment, when a system of teaching foreign languages similar to that of the previous centuries is observed, the modern period of the different national traditions begins. This reveals the change from the past of teaching of foreign languages in French, Latin or Greek, to the present of teaching modern languages.