Events:
289 events from this source recorded1396 | First extant manual for teaching French in England |
1422 | Brewers Guild begin to keep records in English |
1483 | First manual for teaching French & English prepared by William Caxton |
1498 | Wynken de Worde's "A Lytell treatyse for to learne Englisshe and Frensshe" published. |
1530 | Palsgrave's 'L'ecslaircissement de la langue francoyse' |
1530 | Life of Mulcaster |
1540 | Lily's "A short introduction of grammar" published |
1540 | "royal diktat that only Lily's Latin grammar" could be used in schools |
1551 | John Hart's 'The Opening of the Unreasonable Writing of Our English Tongue' written |
1553 | Gabriel Meurier's 'A treatise for to Learn to Speak French and English' |
1554 | 'A very Profitable book to Learn English and Spanish' published |
1568 | Sir Thomas Smith's 'De Recta et Emendata Linguae Anglicae Dialogus' published |
1569 | John Hart's 'Orthographie' published |
1570 | Ascham's 'The Schoolmaster' |
1570 | John Hart's 'A Method' published |
1573 | Holyband's "The French Schoolmaster" published |
1576 | Holyband's 'The French Littleton' published |
1578 | Florio's "First Fruits" published |
1580 | Jacques Bellot's "The English Schoolmaster" published |
1580 | Bullokar's 'Booke at Large' published |
1580 | Montaigne's 'Essay on the Education of Children' published |
1581 | Mulcaster's 'Positions' published |
1582 | Mulcaster's 'The first part of the Elementarie' published |
1586 | Bellot's "Familiar Dialogues" published |
1586 | Bullokar's 'Pamphlet for Grammar' published |
1591 | Florio's "Second Fruits" published |
1593 | Holyband's "Dictionary French and English" published |
1593 | John Eliot's "Orthoepia Gallica". |
1596 | Mulcaster High Master at St Paul's |
1605 | Bacon's "Advancement of Learning" |
1611 | Cotgraves' 'Dictionary of the French and English Tongues' |
1621 | Gil's ' Logonomia Anglica' |
1622 | George Mason's "Grammaire Angloise". |
1622 | Joseph Webbe's "An Appeal to Truth" published |
1623 | John Wodroephe's "The Marrow of the French Tongue" published |
1623 | Joseph Webbe submits patent request for his textbook layout |
1627 | Joseph Webbe's 'Pueriles Confabulatinculae' published |
1631 | Jan Amos Comenius's 'Janua Linguarum Reserata' completed |
1631 | Early version of Comenius's 'Vestibulum' published in London |
1633 | Comenius's 'Vestibulum' published in Leipzig |
1640 | Ben Jonson's 'English Grammar' published |
1644 | Milton's "Of Education" |
1646 | 'English Schoolmaster' published in Amsterdam |
1646 | Francois Hillenius's 'Den Engelschen ende Ne'erduitschen Onderrichte' published |
1646 | Poole's 'The English Accidence' published |
1648 | Comenius's 'Linguarum Methodus Novissima' completed |
1653 | John Wallis's 'Grammatica Linguae Anglicanae' published |
1657 | Comenius's 'Great Didatic' published |
1658 | Comenius's 'Orbis Sensualium Pictus' published |
1659 | Charles Hoole's translation of Comenius's 'Pictus' prepared |
1660 | Port Royal's 'Grammaire generale et raisonee' |
1664 | Royal Society committee to 'improve the English Tongue' |
1668 | Bishop John Wilkins' 'Essay' published |
1672 | Festeau's 'Nouvelle Grammaire Angloise' published |
1685 | Guy Miege's 'Nouvelle Methode pour Apprendre l'Anglois' published |
1685 | Cooper's 'Grammatica Linguae Anglicanae' published |
1687 | Cooper's 'The English Teacher' published |
1687 | Offelen's 'Double-Grammar' |
1688 | Miege's adapted translation of his 'Nouvelle' published as 'The English Grammar' |
1690 | Locke's 'An essay concerning human understanding' |
1693 | Joseph Aicken's 'English Grammar' published |
1693 | Locke's 'Some Thoughts Concerning Education' |
1697 | Defoe's 'Essay upon projects' published |
1706 | Konig's 'Volkommener' |
1712 | Michael Maittaire's 'English Grammar' published |
1712 | Swift publishes 'Proposal for Correcting, Improving and Ascertaining the English Tongue' |
1712 | Oldmixon's response to Swift's 'Proposal' |
1718 | Arnold's 'Grammatiica Anglicana' |
1735 | Collyer's 'General Principles of Grammar' |
1746 | Life of Heinrich Pestalozzi |
1746 | Birth of Pestalozzi |
1747 | Johnson's 'Plan for a Dictionary' published |
1754 | Gough's 'Practical Grammar of the English Tongue' |
1755 | Johnson publishes 'A dictionary of the English Language' |
1761 | Priestley publishes 'The Rudiments of English Grammar' |
1762 | Lowth publishes "Short Introduction to English Grammar" |
1771 | Fenning's 'New Grammar of the English Language' |
1783 | Webster publishes 1st book of "A Grammatical Institute of the English Language". |
1783 | Meidinger's 'Praktische franzosiche Grammatik' |
1785 | Ussher's 'Elements of English Grammar' |
1786 | Jones' Third Anniversary Discourse to the Bengal Asiatic Society |
1787 | Webster's 1st book of 'A Grammatical Institute' renamed 'An American Spelling Book' |
1791 | John Walker publishes 'Critical Pronouncing Dictionary' |
1793 | Fick's 'Praktische englische Sprachlehre' published |
1793 | Birth of Marcel |
1795 | Lindley Murray's 'English Grammar, adapted to the different classes of learners' published |
1797 | John Miller's 'The Tutor' published |
1797 | Murray's 'English Exercises' published |
1801 | Pestalozzi's 'How Gertrud Teaches her Children' |
1804 | Lowth's 'An English Spelling Book' |
1804 | Webster revised his speller, now 'The American Spelling Book, revised edition' |
1806 | Webster's 'A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language' published |
1818 | William Cobbet publishes 'Grammar of the English Language' in New York |
1820 | Marcel's 'Practical Method' |
1826 | Life of Lambert Sauveur |
1827 | Death of Pestalozzi |
1828 | Webster publishes "An American Dictionary of the English Language". |
1830 | Jacotot's 'Enseignment universal' published |
1830 | Payne's 'A Compendius Exposition' published |
1834 | Tiark's 'Introductory Grammar' published |
1834 | Ahn's 'New, Practical and Easy Method' |
1835 | Ollendorff's 'New Method' |
1837 | Pitman's shorthand system published. |
1845 | Sweet's life |
1845 | Blackie's article in the Foreign Quarterly Review |
1852 | Peter Roget's 'Thesaurus' published |
1852 | Life of Maximilian Berlitz |
1853 | Claude Marcel's 'Language as a Means of Mental Culture and International Communication' |
1853 | Ploetz's 'Elemtarbuch der franzosischen Sprache' |
1863 | Cambridge Overseas Exams exams sat overseas for first time |
1864 | Prendergast's 'The Mastery of Languages' published |
1864 | Muller's 'Lectures on Language' published |
1869 | Sauveur and Heness open their first school in New Haven, Connecticut |
1872 | Marcel's 'Rational Method' |
1874 | Sauveur's 'An Introduction to the Teaching of Living Languages' published |
1874 | Sweet's 'A History of English Sounds' |
1876 | Death of Marcel |
1877 | Sweet's 'Handbook of Phonetics' published |
1878 | Berlitz opens his first school in Rhode Island |
1878 | Ploetz, G. C.'s 'English Vocabulary' |
1880 | Gouin's 'The Art of Teaching and Studying Languages' published |
1880 | Paul's 'Die Prinzipen der Spracgeschichte' published |
1882 | Wilhelm Vietor's pamphlet 'Der Sprachunterricht muss umkehren' published |
1884 | Sweet presents paper, 'On the Practical Study of Language' |
1884 | Felix Francke publishes 'Die praktische Spracherlernung' |
1884 | Vietor's 'Elemente der Phonetik' |
1885 | Weisse's 'A Complete Practical Grammar of the German Language' published |
1885 | Passy's 'Le francais parle' |
1885 | Passy's 'L'Instruction primaire aux Etats-Unis' |
1886 | Phonetic Teachers' Association founded |
1886 | Passy's 'Elements d'anglais parle' |
1886 | 1st issue of 'The Phonetic Teacher' appeared |
1887 | Vietor's 'Englisches Lesebuch' published |
1887 | Life of Bloomfield |
1887 | Passy's 'Les sons du francais' |
1888 | Widgery's 'The Teaching of Languages in Schools' published |
1888 | Klinghardt's 'Ein Jahr Erfahrungen mit der neuen Methode' published |
1889 | IPA's journal 'Le Maitre Phonetique' first published |
1889 | Life of Ogden |
1890 | Sweet's 'A Primer of Spoken English' published |
1890 | Birth of Firth |
1892 | Klinghardt's 'Drei weitre Jahre Erfahrungen mit der imitativen Methode' published |
1892 | English translation of Gouin's 'The Art' |
1893 | Passy's "Elementarbuch des gesprochenen Franzosisch' |
1897 | IPA takes its final name |
1898 | Kaeding's 'Haufigkeitsworterbauch der deutschen Sprache' published |
1898 | Hornby's life |
1899 | Henry Sweet publishes 'The Practical Study of Languages' |
1900 | Sweet's 'The History of Language' |
1901 | Jespersen's 'Sprogunevisning' published |
1902 | Vietor's 'Die Methodik' published |
1904 | Jespersen's 'How to Teach a Foreign Language' published |
1908 | Sweet's 'The Sounds of English' |
1909 | Jones's 'The Pronunciation of English' published |
1909 | Jespersen's 7 volume 'Modern English Grammar' |
1911 | Boas' 'Handbook of American Indian Languages' |
1913 | Jones's 'A phonetic dictionary of the English Language' published |
1913 | Watson's paper 'Psychology as the Behaviourist Views It' published |
1913 | Thorndike's 'The Psychology of Learning' published |
1914 | Bloomfield's 'Introduction to the Study of Language' published |
1914 | West's 'Education and Psychology' |
1916 | de Saussure's 'Cours de linguistique generale' published |
1917 | Jones's 'The English Pronouncing Dictionary' published |
1917 | Palmer publishes 'The Scientific Study and Teaching of Languages' |
1918 | Jones's 'Outline of English Phonetics' published |
1921 | Palmer publishes 'Principles of Language Study' |
1921 | Palmer's 'The Oral Method of Teaching Languages' published |
1921 | Thorndike publishes 'The Teacher's Word Book' |
1921 | Sapir's 'Language' |
1922 | Jespersen's 'Language: it's Nature, Development and Origin' |
1922 | Palmer's 'English Intonation, with Systematic Exercises' |
1923 | Palmer's 'Sequence Series: Questions, Sequence Series: Answers' published |
1923 | Ogden's 'The Meaning of Meaning' published |
1924 | Palmer publishes 'A Grammar of Spoken English' |
1924 | Jespersen's 'The Philosophy of Grammar' published |
1925 | Palmer publishes 'English through Actions' |
1926 | West publishes 'Bilingualism' |
1926 | BBC Advisory Committee on Spoken English founded |
1926 | West's 'Learning to Read a Foreign Language' |
1927 | West's D. Phil awarded under title ' The Position of English in a National Teaching system in Bengal' |
1927 | West's 'New Method Readers' first appear in Calcutta |
1929 | West's 'Language in Education' |
1930 | Ogden's 'Basic English' published |
1932 | Faucett and Maki's 'A Study of English Word-values' published |
1932 | IRET pamphlet 'The Grading & Simplifying of Literary Material' published |
1932 | Palmer's '600-word Vocabulary for Story Telling' published |
1932 | Thorndike's 'The Teacher's Word Book of 20,000 Words' published |
1933 | 'The Oxford English Course' published |
1933 | West's 'New Method Conversation' published |
1933 | Bloomfield's 'Language' published |
1933 | West's 'Learning to Speak a Foreign Language' |
1934 | The British Committee for Relations with other Countries established |
1934 | West et al's 'A Critical Examination of Basic English' published |
1934 | Carnegie Conference held in New York |
1935 | West publishes 'The New Method English Dictionary' |
1935 | 2nd Carnegie Conference held in London |
1935 | Ogden's 'Counter-Offensive' published |
1935 | The British Committee for Relations with other Countries renamed British Council |
1936 | "Interim Report on Vocabulary Selection" published |
1937 | Palmer and Hornby publish 'Thousand-Word English' |
1938 | Palmer publishes 'A Grammar of English Words' |
1938 | West's ' New Method Composition' published |
1938 | Lorge's 'Semantic Count of English Words' published |
1938 | Eckersley's 'Essential English for Foreign Students' |
1940 | Fries' 'American English Grammar' |
1941 | Fries 'Intensive Course in English for Latin-American Students' |
1942 | Palmer's 'New Method English Course for West Africa' published |
1942 | Bloomfield's 'An Outline Guide for the Practical Study of Foreign Languages' published |
1942 | Bloch and Trager's 'Outline of Linguistic Analysis' published |
1942 | 'An Idiomatic and Syntactic English Dictionary' |
1943 | 'English by Radio' transmitted |
1943 | Robert's 'Basic English and its Uses' published |
1943 | American Army's ASTP courses run |
1944 | Palmer's 'The International Course' published |
1944 | Thorndike and Lorge's 'The Teacher's Word Book of 30,000 Words' published |
1944 | Churchill's answer in the House of Commons on the role of (Basic) English in a post-war world |
1945 | Richard and Gibson's 'A Pocket Book of Basic English' published |
1945 | Fries' 'Teaching and Learning English as a Foreign Language' published |
1945 | Hornby finishes work for BC in Iran |
1946 | First issue of 'English Language Teaching' published |
1946 | Fries & Yao Shen's 'Intensive Course in English for Chinese Students' |
1946 | Hornby edits ELT |
1948 | Abercrombie's paper 'The social basis of language' published in ELT |
1948 | A Learner's Dictionary of Current English (LDCE) |
1949 | Mackin & Weinberger's 'El Ingles para Medicos' published |
1949 | Kiddle's article in 'Language Learning' |
1949 | Lorge's 'A Semantic Count of the 570 Commonest Words' published |
1952 | Fries's 'The Structure of English' published |
1952 | 'The Advanced Learner's Dictionary of Current Dictionary' published |
1953 | 'General Service List' published |
1954 | Hornby's 'A Guide to Patterns and Usage in English' published |
1954 | Hornby's 'Oxford Progressive English for Adult Learners' published |
1957 | White Paper on work of the British Council |
1957 | Lado's 'Linguistics across cultures' published |
1957 | Noam Chomsky publishes "Syntactic Structures". |
1957 | Firth's 'Papers in Linguistics' |
1958 | National Defense Education Act passed |
1959 | Firth's paper on 'restricted languages' published |
1959 | Washington Conference on Teaching English Abroad |
1959 | 1st volume of Hornby's 'The Teaching of Structural Words and Sentence Patterns' |
1960 | Stack's 'The Language Laboratory' published |
1960 | ARELS set up |
1960 | West's 'Teaching English in Difficult Circumstances' |
1960 | Death of Firth |
1961 | OUP takes part share in publication of ELT journal |
1961 | CREDIF's 'Voix et Images de France' published |
1961 | The British Council's ETIC set up |
1961 | Halliday's 'Categories of the theory of grammar' published |
1961 | Hornby Educational Trust established |
1962 | International House starts publicly to offer training courses |
1963 | Hayes' 'Language Laboratory Facilities' published |
1963 | CREDIF's 'Bonjour Line' published |
1963 | Robbins Report |
1963 | Nuffield Project started |
1965 | Howatt Webb & Knight's 'A Modern Course in Business English' published |
1965 | Close's 'The English we Use for Science' published |
1965 | Chomsky's 'Aspects of the Theory of Syntax' published |
1966 | Materials development project set up at Leeds Institute of Education |
1966 | Chomsky's address to the North East Conference |
1967 | Schools Council project at University of Birmingham |
1967 | 'DELTA' first offered by RSA |
1967 | ATEFL founded |
1967 | BAAL founded |
1967 | TESOL formed |
1967 | Pit Corder's 'The significance of learners' errors' published |
1967 | Alexander's 'First Things First' |
1968 | Huddleston's 'Sentence and Clause in Scientific English' published |
1968 | Hassan's 'Grammatical Cohesion' published |
1969 | 'Languages for Special Purposes' conference report published |
1969 | 'The Turners' published |
1969 | 'Scope, Stage 1' published |
1971 | Swales' 'Writing Scientific English' published |
1971 | ATEFL renamed IATEFL |
1971 | The Threshold Level initiated |
1972 | Wilkin's Council of Europe paper published |
1972 | Sinclair et al's 'The English Used by Teachers and Pupils' published |
1972 | 'Concept 7-9' published |
1972 | Wilkins' 'Linguistic and situational content' published |
1972 | Quirk et al's 'Grammar of Contemporary English' |
1972 | English Language Teaching renamed ELT Journal |
1973 | Van Ek's 'The Threshold Level' published |
1974 | IATEFL holds first international conference in Budapest |
1975 | Jupp and Hodlin's 'Industrial English' published |
1976 | Wilkins' 'Notional Syllabuses' published |
1978 | NATESLA formed |
1978 | Munby's 'Communicative Syllabus Design' published |
1978 | 'Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English' published |
1978 | Widdowson's 'Teaching Language as Communication' published |
1979 | Bangalore Project started |