Teach yourself? : language learning through self-instruction manuals in nineteenth-century Scandinavia

To learn a foreign language from a self-instruction manual (teach-yourself book) is not as easy as the publishers will have us believe. Despite this, the genre has endured for many centuries. This thesis argues that the robustness of self-instruction language manuals is due to their ability to adapt...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sorensen, L. M.
Other Authors: Linn, A. R.
Published: University of Sheffield 2010
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.527264