John George Brown’s Grammar and its Guidelines for Teaching Pronunciation

Abstract

This work seeks a double objective. On the one hand, it aims to rescue the figure and grammar works of language teachers who pioneered the teaching of English language in Spain in the nineteenth century. On the other, it sheds light upon the teaching of the oral component and, in particular, pronunciation. The focus has been placed on John G. Brown, and through a descriptive analysis of part of his grammar, we discover how the oral component was taught at that time. So forth, we study the procedure followed to teach pronunciation and the methodological guidelines given for its use and implementation.