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Improve student engagement with textual resources in linguistic purism through digital access and analysis. Overcome limitations of historical linguistic study with practical online tools. Enhance learning outcomes and employability prospects.
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Promoting Student Engagementwith 19th Century Linguistic Purism Filippo Nereo Manchester
Context • Undergraduate students typically unfamiliar with historical linguistics • Trips to historical ‘landmark’ texts impractical / financially unfeasible • Contribution to employability is questioned • Student engagement and motivation can be tricky
Grammatisch-kritisches Wörterbuch der hochdeutschen Mundart, mit beständiger Vergleichung der übrigen Mundarten, besonders aber der Oberdeutschen von Johann Christoph Adelung, […]
Impact • “excellent...enhanced learning significantly, we had the resources at our fingertips” • “the most useful resource on Blackboard has been the e-books. The books are rarely available in the library; having access to them via blackboard has been extremely useful.” • “Scans of historical resources have been a great help as these would not be accessible as easily as other resources for the course.” • “Great to be able to look at such old works without worrying about damaging them etc!!!”
Sources • Embed into VLE • Download as pdf / print • Conduct comparative analyses of different editions • Navigate
Links • http://books.google.com ‘Adelung Wörterbuch’ • http://tinyurl.com/adelungBSB • http://tinyurl.com/adelung-bielefeld • http://tinyurl.com/adelungIA • Fil.Nereo@manchester.ac.uk