The Earl W. Stevick Collection
A collection of miscellaneous short pieces written since 1998.
Dr. Earl Stevick (1923-2013) was an influential force in English language teaching through many conference presentations, training sessions, major articles, and books. The latter includes his groundbreaking volume Memory, Meaning, and Method (Rowley: Newbury House, 1976), the award-winning classic Teaching Languages: A Way and Ways (Boston: Heinle, 1980), along with Teaching and Learning Languages (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1982), Humanism in Language Teaching (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990), a largely revised 20th anniversary edition of Memory, Meaning and Method (Boston: Heinle, 1996), and Working with Teaching Methods: What's at Stake? (Boston: Heinle, 1998), among others.
Dr. Stevick was a member and supporter of CELEA from its early days as a part of TESOL, and after it became an independent organization. His contributions are discussed and reflected in an edited collection by Jane Arnold and Tim Murphey entitled Meaningful Action: Earl Stevick's Influence in Language Teaching (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013).
We are grateful that Dr. Stevick shared his final writings with the world through this online collection entitled Afterwords (2002). [See also Earl Stevick]
What is Afterword?
Since his last book, Working with Teaching Methods: What's at Stake? (Boston: Heinle, 1998), he has written a few short invited pieces on language teaching. Afterwords (which were formerly called Postscripts) are available below (Dr. Earl Stevick, 2002).
Title, Table of Contents, Preface
Communication as Costly Comedy
Contribution to Jane Arnold's Panel (TESOL, 1999)
Will the Real Scientists Please Stand Up?
Let the Words, Too, Become Flesh