Abstract

Pestalozzi's contributions to language teaching have been neglected by Pestalozzian scholarship. This study attempts to fill the gap. The book discusses various aspects of Pestalozzi's life and age, among them: the effects of the Industrial and French Revolutions, Pestalozzi's upbringing, schooling, writings, and his general educational theories and principles, before the author attempts to analyse all aspects of the Pestalozzian method of language teaching, including his theories of language origin, sound-teaching, the teaching of words, the importance of repetition, the place of grammar, the teaching of language proper, and foreign language teaching.