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Fraktur or Antiqua in Primary Schools? The Struggle for a Unified Typeface in German-Speaking Switzerland between the Mid-Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

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Boser, Lukas; Hofmann, Michèle – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2019

In this paper, we analyse the struggle for a unified style of writing in primary schools in the German-speaking part of Switzerland between the 1860s and the first decades of the twentieth century with regard to the contexts in which this struggle was embedded. In the late-nineteenth century, in German-speaking Switzerland, as in other parts of…

Descriptors: German, Educational History, Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students

Eight Hundred Years of Modern Language Learning and Teaching in the German-Speaking Countries of Central Europe: A Social History

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Schröder, Konrad – Language Learning Journal, 2018

The paper gives an overview of FLT in the German-speaking regions of Europe from medieval times to the present day, within a framework of language politics, communicative needs and educational ideologies. The languages addressed are French, Italian, Spanish, English, Russian and Turkish. Basic social and professional data of the various groups of…

Descriptors: Modern Languages, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Educational History

Le Changement linguistique: Evolution, variation, and heterogeneite. Actes du colloque de Neuchatel Universite (Neuchatel, Suisse, 2-4 Octobre 2000) (Linguistic Change: Evolution, Variation, Heterogeneity. Proceedings of the University of Neuchatel Colloquium [Neuchatel, Switzerland, October 2-4, 2000]).

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Matthey, Marinette, Ed. – Travaux Neuchatelois de Linguistique (Tranel), 2001

Articles in this issue focus on language evolution, variation, and heterogeneity. The following are English translations of the French article titles appearing in the issue: "Irregular Phonetic Development Due to Frequency; Regional Traits in Proto-Romance"; "Linguistic Evolution and Evolution of Perspective in the Comparative…

Descriptors: Adjectives, Adults, Bilingualism, Creoles