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1483
First manual for teaching French & English prepared by William Caxton
1580
Jacques Bellot's "The English Schoolmaster" published
1586
Bellot's "Familiar Dialogues" published
1622
George Mason's "Grammaire Angloise".
1653
John Wallis's 'Grammatica Linguae Anglicanae' published
1687
Offelen's 'Double-Grammar'
1706
Konig's 'Volkommener'
1718
Arnold's 'Grammatiica Anglicana'
1835
Macauley's Minute to Lord Bentinck
1872
Marcel's 'Rational Method'
1886
Passy's 'Elements d'anglais parle'
1898
Hornby's life
1915
Palmer invited to give course of lectures on methodology.
1915
Saito's 'Idiomological English-Japanese Dictionary'
1921
Sawayanagi visits London.
1922
Palmer's 'English Intonation, with Systematic Exercises'
1922
Palmer appointed Linguistic Adviser to the Japanese Ministry of Education
1923
Institute for Research in English Teaching set up
1924
Hornby arrives in Japan
1925
Palmer publishes 'English through Actions'
1932
Palmer's '600-word Vocabulary for Story Telling' published
1932
Palmer's 'Some Notes on Construction-Patterns'
1933
'The Oxford English Course' published
1934
The British Committee for Relations with other Countries established
1934
Carnegie Conference held in New York
1935
West publishes 'The New Method English Dictionary'
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'
1938
Eckersley's 'Essential English for Foreign Students'
1940
Hornby and Ishikawa publish ''A Beginners' English-Japanese Dictionary'
1941
Fries 'Intensive Course in English for Latin-American Students'
1941
Hornby returns to England and is recruited by BC
1942
Palmer's 'New Method English Course for West Africa' published
1942
'An Idiomatic and Syntactic English Dictionary'
1943
'English by Radio' transmitted
1943
March of Time produces a film to teach Basic English
1944
Roach's paper on UCLES oral exams
1944
Palmer's 'The International Course' published
1945
BBC sets up its English by Radio Deparment
1946
Fries & Yao Shen's 'Intensive Course in English for Chinese Students'
1947
Hornby's article 'Linguistic pedagogy IV'
1948
A Learner's Dictionary of Current English (LDCE)
1950
BC conference in Mahableshwar
1952
'The Advanced Learner's Dictionary of Current Dictionary' published
1953
'General Service List' published
1954
Hornby's 'Oxford Progressive English for Adult Learners' published
1954
Hornby's 'A Guide to Patterns and Usage in English' published
1956
English Language Exploratory Committee conference
1957
Gorosch & Axelsson's ELT in elementary school project
1959
Washington Conference on Teaching English Abroad
1959
1st volume of Hornby's 'The Teaching of Structural Words and Sentence Patterns'
1959
Allen's 'Living English structure'
1959
Catford's review of EFL in Britain
1960
West's 'Teaching English in Difficult Circumstances'
1960
Nutford House Conference
1960
Corder's "English Language Teaching and Television"
1961
OUP takes part share in publication of ELT journal
1961
Ford Foundation discusses collaboration with 4 British universities
1961
Hornby Educational Trust established
1961
Fries & Fries' 'Foundations for English Teaching'
1961
English Teaching Newsletter starts to be published
1962
International House starts publicly to offer training courses
1963
English Teaching Forum starts to be published
1963
Advanced Learners Dictionary of Current English 2nd Edition ALD2
1965
Close's 'The English we Use for Science' published
1965
"An International Reader's Dictionary" published.
1965
"A Vocabulary and Reading test for Students of English as a Second Language"
1967
'DELTA' first offered by RSA
1967
ATEFL founded
1967
TESOL formed
1967
Alexander's 'First Things First'
1967
Alexander's 'Practice and Progress'
1967
ARELS Diploma of Proficiency in Spoken English and Comprehension 1st set
1968
Candlin's 'Present Day English for Foreign Students'
1968
Broughton's 'Success with English'
1969
'A Course in Basic Scientific English' published
1970
'Oxford Advanced Learner's English-Chinese Dictionary'
1970
Bright & McGregor's 'Teaching English as a Second Language'
1970
Language Centre set up at Tariz University, Iran.
1971
Swales' 'Writing Scientific English' published
1971
ATEFL renamed IATEFL
1971
Nash's "The place of the English language in the USSR"
1971
Barnard's 'Advanced English Vocabulary'
1972
'Concept 7-9' published
1972
Johnson's recommendation to centralise ELT at Chulalongkorn Uni.
1973
Dulay & Burt's 'Should we teach children syntax?'
1973
Walford's 'North Sea Exploration'
1973
Van Ek's 'The Threshold Level' published
1973
Zambian Ministry of Education primary English survey.
1973
CDC evaluation of Zambian primary English course
1974
IATEFL holds first international conference in Budapest
1974
Cook's 'English Topics'
1974
"Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary of Current English" published
1974
O'Neill's "Kernel Lessons"
1974
Lachowicz's 'Using Medical English'
1974
Allen & Widdowson's 'English in Focus' series
1975
IEA's "The Teaching of English as A foreign Language in Ten Countries"
1975
Crystal and Davy's "Advanced Conversational Skills"
1975
10th Regional Seminar, held in Singapore
1975
BAAL/SELMOUS seminar at Birmingham
1976
Harvey and Wheeler's 'North Sea Challenge'
1976
1st meeting of ELTS Test Development Committee
1976
Feasability study for RSA communicative English test
1976
Dudley-Evans joins English for Overseas Students Unit at Birmingham University
1976
Further EFPS arrive in Cameroon
1977
Lynch's 'It's Your Choice'
1977
Abbs et al's 'Starting Strategies'
1977
Jones's 'Functions of English'
1977
Morgan & Percil's 'Vital English'
1977
Pilot of ELTS test materials
1977
BC's English Language Division takes over development of ELTS's test.
1977
Six samples of "the linguistic-communicative needs of a range of potential students"
1977
Grade 6 reading survey in Fiji
1978
Alexander's 'Mainline Beginners'
1978
'Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English' published
1978
ARELS Preliminary Exam 1st set
1978
"Specifications for an English Language Testing Service" published
1978
Initial package of ELTS test trialled in 34 centres
1978
Pilotting of 1st 4 units of FR1 at Chulalongkorn Uni.
1978
Large-scale pilotting of FR1 at Chulalongkorn Uni.
1978
Swales starts at University of Aston
1978
Gimson's rudimentary international pronunciation
1978
Dunford House seminars started
1979
Geddes & Sturtridge's 'Listening Links'
1979
Morrow & Johnson's 'Communicate'
1979
Jones's 'Notions in English'
1979
Underwood's 'Have You Heard?'
1979
"Reading and Thinking: Exploring Functions"
1979
Further trials of ELTS test package in 35 centres worldwide
1979
Pilotting of RSA communicative English test
1979
Cameroon Francophone training colleges start compulsory English
1979
2nd Dunford Seminar
1979
Holden's "Teacher Training"
1980
"Chambers Universal Learners' Dictionary" published
1980
Bolitho & Tomlinson's "Discover English"
1980
Dudley-Evans is KELT Adviser to the English Language Centre at Ngee Ann Polytechnic
1980
KELT project starts in Sierra Leone
1981
Littlewood's 'Communicative Language Teaching: An Introduction'
1981
Watcyn-Jones's 'Pair Work'
1981
Bejoint's study of dictionary use published
1981
RSA Exam in the Communicative Use of EFL first sat
1981
Sierra Leone KELT adviser training in UK
1981
Book 1 of EFS ready
1982
Quirk's "Nuclear English"
1983
ESP for the Arab World conference at Aston
1984
Davies & West's "Guide to English Language Examinations"
1984
Celce-Murcia & Larsen-Freeman's "The Grammar Book: An ESL/EFL Teacher's Course"
1985
Trimble's "EST: A Discourse Approach"
1986
Lewis's 'The English Verb'
1986
ETIC closed to the public
1986
Cripeer & Davies' validation study of ELTS
1987
Underhill's "Testing Spoken English"
1987
Michael's "The Teaching of English"
1989
IATEFL ELT Management Newsletter started
1992
Phillipson's 'Linguistic Imperialism'
1992
Alston Hall seminar
1994
Pennycock's "The Cultural politics of English as an International Language"
1995
Nunan's coursebook 'Atlas'
1995
'Cambridge International Dictionary of English'
1996
Willis, J. & Willis, D's 'Challenge and Change in Language Teaching'
1998
'The American Heritage English as a Second Language Dictionary' published
1999
Cowie's 'English Dictionaries for Foreign Learners'
2002
'Macmillan English Dictionary for Advanced Learners'
2002
Richards and Renandya's 'Methodology in Language Teaching: An Anthology of Current Practice'