Breeze or storm? The European Reform Movement and Dutch Foreign Language Teaching, c1880-1920

The drift of nearly all publications on the history of Dutch FLT is that the impact of the European Reform Movement (c1880-1910) was insignificant. However, the question is on what information this notion is based. From the comments of a number of persons who published their ideas during the 1930s - some 25 years after the Reform debate had fallen silent - it appears that their knowledge of the historical facts was small. And it seems that the comments of later critics are not based on proper research either. The question is if there was anything like a Dutch Reform Movement and, if so, in how... Mehr ...