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Details for:
Cowie, A. P. (1999). English Dictionaries for Foreign Learners: A History. Oxford: Oxford University Press
events
Events:
93 events from this source recorded
1877
Life of Palmer
1888
Michael Philip West's life
1898
Hornby's life
1903
Palmer opens school in Verviers
1907
Palmer begins correspondence with Jones
1914
Jespersen introduces the terms 'countable' and 'uncountable'
1915
Palmer invited to give course of lectures on methodology.
1915
Saito's 'Idiomological English-Japanese Dictionary'
1916
Palmer & Kinoshita's Japenese beginners' voacbulary
1917
Palmer publishes 'The Scientific Study and Teaching of Languages'
1921
Thorndike publishes 'The Teacher's Word Book'
1921
Palmer publishes 'Principles of Language Study'
1921
Sawayanagi visits London.
1922
Palmer appointed Linguistic Adviser to the Japanese Ministry of Education
1923
Imperial Education Conference held
1923
Institute for Research in English Teaching set up
1924
Palmer publishes 'A Grammar of Spoken English'
1924
Hornby arrives in Japan
1925
Palmer's 'Systematic Exercises in Sentence Building'
1926
West publishes 'Bilingualism'
1926
Palmer's article 'The noun complex'
1927
West's 'New Method Readers' first appear in Calcutta
1929
Palmer's article 'What shall we call a word?'
1929
Palmer's article 'What is an idiom?'
1930
'First Interim Report on Vocabulary Selection' published
1931
'First Interim Report on English Collocations' published
1931
'Second Interim Report on Vocabulary Selection'
1931
Hornby's first grammar article in IRET Bulletin
1931
Palmer invites Hornby to help with word list
1932
Palmer's 'Some Notes on Construction-Patterns'
1932
Saito's 'Monograph on Prepositions'
1933
'Second Interim Report on English Collocations' published.
1934
Carnegie Conference held in New York
1934
3rd edition of Concise Oxford Dictionary published
1934
Palmer's 'Specimens of English Construction Patterns'
1934
Palmer's 'Essay on Lexicology'
1934
The British Committee for Relations with other Countries established
1934
Hornby moves to Tokyo
1935
2nd Carnegie Conference held in London
1935
West publishes 'The New Method English Dictionary'
1935
West publishes 'Definition Vocabulary'
1936
"Interim Report on Vocabulary Selection" published
1936
Palmer returns to UK
1936
Hornby takes over editorship of IRET Bulletin
1937
Palmer and Hornby publish 'Thousand-Word English'
1938
Palmer publishes 'A Grammar of English Words'
1940
Hornby and Ishikawa publish ''A Beginners' English-Japanese Dictionary'
1941
Hornby returns to England and is recruited by BC
1942
'An Idiomatic and Syntactic English Dictionary'
1945
Hornby finishes work for BC in Iran
1946
First issue of 'English Language Teaching' published
1947
Hornby's article 'Linguistic pedagogy IV'
1948
A Learner's Dictionary of Current English (LDCE)
1949
Palmer dies
1952
'The Advanced Learner's Dictionary of Current Dictionary' published
1953
'General Service List' published
1953
UNESCO monograph 'Use of Vernacular Languages in Education'
1954
Hornby's 'A Guide to Patterns and Usage in English' published
1954
Hornby's 'Oxford Progressive English for Adult Learners' published
1955
Death of E. V. Gatenby
1956
English Language Exploratory Committee conference
1958
Mitchell's article 'Syntagmatic relations in linguistic analysis'
1959
1st volume of Hornby's 'The Teaching of Structural Words and Sentence Patterns'
1961
Webster's Third New International Dictionary published
1961
Hornby Educational Trust established
1962
Barnhart's study of dictionary users
1963
Advanced Learners Dictionary of Current English 2nd Edition ALD2
1965
"An International Reader's Dictionary" published.
1972
Lewis's 'Concise Pronouncing Dictionary of British and American English'
1973
Quirk's investigation into dictionary use by native speakers
1974
"Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary of Current English" published
1975
'Oxford Dictionary of Current Idiomatic English' published
1978
'Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English' published
1978
Hornby and Ruse's 'Oxford Student's Dictionary of Current English' published
1979
'Longman Dictionary of English Idioms' published
1979
'Dictionary of English Words in Context' published
1979
Tomaszczyk's study of dictionary users
1979
Steins' 'The best of British and American lexicography.'
1980
COBUILD project launched
1981
Bejoint's study of dictionary use published
1982
'Selected English Collocations' published
1983
'Oxford Dictionary of Current Idiomatic English, Volume 2' published
1983
Mitchell's study of reading strategies and dictionary use
1984
Tono's study of dictionary use
1986
'BBI Combinatory Dictionary' published
1987
'Collins Cobuild English language Dictionary' published
1987
Sinclair's 'Collocation: a progress report'
1987
Moulin's study into the encoding use of dictionaries.
1987
Moulin's study into the encoding use of dictionaries.
1992
Al-Ajmi's study of dictionary use
1993
'Oxford Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs'
1994
DECIDE project funded by European Commission
1999
Cowie's 'English Dictionaries for Foreign Learners'