Content and language integrated learning of ancient Babylon: antediluvian foundations of a modern approach
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Zverev Ilya Sergeevich
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A significant number of modern foreign language teaching practices are centuries or even millennia old. Nevertheless, few professionals in the field are actually aware of the history of those practices: retrograde amnesia seems to be a common enough ailment affecting many a foreign language teacher. The present article is an attempt to contribute to the treatment of the ailment in question by providing an overview of foreign language teaching practices of the Fertile Crescent (Babylon and Mesopotamia) and drawing parallels between them and innovative Content and Language Integrated Learning of the present day.
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