The Army Method and the Development of Applied Linguistics in the United States
Keywords:
Historiography, Applied Linguistics, Language teaching, Army method, United StatesAbstract
This article derives from a historiographic research on the teaching of Portuguese in the United States during 1940 through 1960. Based on primary sources like books, periodicals and newspapers of the time, the work presents objectively the relationship between the Army Specialized Training Program, also known as the Army Method, and the development of Applied Linguistics to the teaching of foreign languages in the United States.
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