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    Activity sequencing in foreign language teaching: psychological and pedagogic considerations in late 19th century and 21st century materials
    (Editum. Ediciones de la Universidad de Murcia, 2008) Criado, Raquel; Filología Inglesa
    In foreign language teaching research, activity sequencing represents a nearly theoretically and empirically neglected element. This study reports a comparative diachronic analysis of activity sequencing exemplified in two case-studies. Our aim is to uncover the related differences between past and present implementations from pedagogic and psychological perspectives. To accomplish this aim, we drew on Ollendorff’s New Method of Learning to Read, Write, and Speak the Spanish Language (1895) and on a 2005 textbook. Ollendorff’s work embodies one of the first modern attempts to facilitate the study of foreign language grammars. This has not prevented stern attacks to his coursebooks due to his contemporary classification as a representative name within the Grammar- Translation Method. Regarding our procedure, a middle unit of each textbook was examined by means of the Presentation-Practice-Production sequencing teaching model, which constituted our analytical tool. A description of this model from a cognitive viewpoint (Anderson 2000) was also included. The pair of units was examined at both pedagogic and psychological levels. Results indicate: a) a higher sophisticated degree of the current materials concerning the two levels of analysis; b) the value of activity sequencing examination in diachronic studies to evaluate present-day negative views of older methods.------------------------------------------------------