ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Albert Sidney Hornby (1898-1978) an English teacher and writer of books for foreign learners of English. He is best known for the Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary, which was first published in Britain by Oxford University Press in 1948 and is still bought in large numbers by students around the world.

Detailed explanation-2: -It was here in 1946 that he founded English Language Teaching, a journal which was to become highly influential both as a channel for his own ideas on language-teaching methodology and as a forum for those wishing to forge closer links between language teaching and developments in linguistic theory.

Detailed explanation-3: -Albert Sidney (or Sydney) Hornby, usually just A. S. Hornby (1898–1978), was an English grammarian, lexicographer, and pioneer in the field of English language learning and teaching (ELT). Hornby was born in Chester and educated at University College London.