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1500
Interest in the history and culture of the ancient world
The revival of the study of the classical languages and encouraged a deeper knowledge of literature of antiquity. -
1582
Speaking up
Elizabethan London called Richard Mulcaster who spoke up for the use of English in his First Part of the Elementary. -
First but failed
First German mother tongue school at Koethen in Saxony. Sadly it failed due to a lack of sensible practical planning. -
Methodus
Ratke's basic principle saying, "In everything, we should follow the order of Nature." -
Great Didactic
Published in Czech, it stated that the mother tongue should be taught first and once the child reached ten years of age they were to be taught a foreign language. -
Joshua Poole
Expressed the importance of the mother tongue in school systems. -
Mid 1600 Message
Education should grow out of the child's experience of the mother tongue and foreign languages should be relegated to a subsidiary role. -
Some Thoughts Concerning Education
An essay containing advice on the modern system of education to replace the horrors of grammar schools. -
John Locke
John Locke, the notion of a natural method of foreign language teaching mimetic of the universally effective processes of first language acquisition. -
English joins the fight
English joins the school curriculum but rejected by grammar schools until reform was forced. -
The truth
Daniel Duncan's speaks up in public to address that learning dead languages is a joke and people should learn languages that can help people. -
Can it be done?
Joseph Priestley and Robert Lowth share to school systems that English grammar will be difficult to include in the education system But not impossible. -
Bibles of Liberal Educationalists
Lowth's Short Introduction to English Grammar was published along with Roussueau's Emile or Education both about teaching, learning, and childhood. -
Rejected
Rousseau rejects Pestalozzian's empty verbalism. -
For boys ages 8 to 14
Formal education in Europe was almost exclusively for teaching foreign languages. Mainly Latin, Greek, and Hebrew at that time. -
Direct Method
Direct method associated with the schools of Berlitz, the first of which was opened in nearby Rhode Island. -
Elementary for all
Basic elementary education was for all throughout Europe in the late 1900s. -
The Future of Foreign Language
The Board of Education looks into the whole question of modern studies including the future of foreign languages. -
William Penfield
Supported starting foreign language teaching at a young age. -
Straight from the source
French start to teach foreign language with foreign teacher of that language.