Events for the tag:
196 | "A Nation Prepared: Teachers for the 21st Century" |
1382 | Winchester School established |
1396 | First extant manual for teaching French in England |
1440 | Eton established |
1483 | First manual for teaching French & English prepared by William Caxton |
1496 | John Stanbridge's 'Accidence' |
1498 | Wynken de Worde's "A Lytell treatyse for to learne Englisshe and Frensshe" published. |
1513 | Lily's "Absolutissimus" |
1519 | John Stanridge's "Vulgaria" printed. |
1520 | Erasmus' letter to Cominius |
1521 | Barclay's ''The Introductory to Wryte and to Prononouce French' |
1525 | Lily's " De generibus nominum" |
1527 | Lily's "Rudimenta grammatices" |
1528 | Valence's 'Introductions in Frensshe' |
1529 | Erasmus's "De Puris Instituendis" |
1529 | Convocation of Canterbury |
1529 | Erasmus' "De Pueris instituendis" |
1530 | Palsgrave's 'L'ecslaircissement de la langue francoyse' |
1531 | Elyot's 'The Governour' published |
1534 | Gilles Duwes' 'Introducrie for to lerne French' |
1540 | "royal diktat that only Lily's Latin grammar" could be used in schools |
1540 | Lily's "A short introduction of grammar" published |
1550 | 'A Very Necessary Book' |
1553 | Gabriel Meurier's 'A treatise for to Learn to Speak French and English' |
1553 | Wilson's 'The arte of rhetorique' published |
1554 | 'A very Profitable book to Learn English and Spanish' published |
1556 | Cordier's 'Colloquia' |
1561 | Mulcaster Headmaster of Merchant Taylors' |
1566 | Holyband granted denizenship |
1567 | Rugby School established |
1570 | Ascham's 'The Schoolmaster' |
1570 | John Hart's 'A Method' published |
1573 | Holyband's "The French Schoolmaster" published |
1575 | de la Pichonnaye's 'A Plaine Pathway' |
1576 | Holyband's 'The French Littleton' published |
1578 | Florio's "First Fruits" published |
1580 | Jacques Bellot's "The English Schoolmaster" 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 |
1587 | Thomas Thomas's "Dictionarium linguae Latinae et Anglicanae" |
1591 | Florio's "Second Fruits" published |
1591 | Stepney's 'The Spanish Schoolemaister' |
1592 | Birth of Comenius |
1593 | John Eliot's "Orthoepia Gallica". |
1593 | Holyband's "Dictionary French and English" published |
1596 | Edmund Coote publishes 'The English Schoolemaister' |
1596 | Mulcaster High Master at St Paul's |
1598 | John Florio's "A Worlde of Wordes" |
1600 | Mulcaster's "Cato Christianus" |
1605 | Bacon's "Advancement of Learning" |
1611 | Cotgraves' 'Dictionary of the French and English Tongues' |
1612 | Brinsley's 'The posing of the past' |
1622 | Joseph Webbe's "An Appeal to Truth" published |
1622 | George Mason's "Grammaire Angloise". |
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 |
1632 | Comenius's "Didactica Magna" |
1633 | Comenius's 'Vestibulum' published in Leipzig |
1641 | Comenius briefly in Lodon |
1642 | Comenius writes "Via Lucis" |
1644 | Milton's "Of Education" |
1646 | 'English Schoolmaster' published in Amsterdam |
1646 | Poole's 'The English Accidence' published |
1646 | Francois Hillenius's 'Den Engelschen ende Ne'erduitschen Onderrichte' published |
1648 | Comenius's 'Linguarum Methodus Novissima' completed |
1657 | Comenius's 'Great Didatic' published |
1658 | Comenius's 'Orbis Sensualium Pictus' published |
1659 | Charles Hoole's translation of Comenius's 'Pictus' prepared |
1660 | Hoole's "A New Dictionary of the Old Art of Teaching School" |
1661 | Hunt's 'Libellus orthographus' published |
1662 | Act of Uniformity |
1668 | Comenius' "Via Lucis" published |
1669 | Newton's 'School Pastime for Young Children' |
1670 | Death of Comenius |
1671 | Lye's 'The child's delight' published |
1672 | Festeau's 'Nouvelle Grammaire Angloise' published |
1673 | Preston's 'Brief directions for true spelling' published |
1674 | Cole's 'The Compleat English Schoolmaster' published |
1674 | Coles' "The Compleat English Schoolmaster" |
1675 | Coles' "Nolens volens" |
1675 | Coles' "Syncrisis" |
1683 | Hoadly's 'The Natural Method of Teaching' |
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' |
1693 | Joseph Aicken's 'English Grammar' published |
1693 | Locke's 'Some Thoughts Concerning Education' |
1703 | Locke's interlinear "Aesop's Fables" |
1706 | Konig's 'Volkommener' |
1708 | Dyche's "Vocabularium Latiale" |
1709 | Dyche's "Guide to the English Tongue" |
1710 | Life of Robert Lowth |
1716 | Dyche's "The Youth's Guide to the Latin Tongue" |
1718 | Arnold's 'Grammatiica Anglicana' |
1734 | Loughton publishes "Practical Grammar of the English Tongue" |
1735 | Collyer's 'General Principles of Grammar' |
1737 | 'Circulating schools' started |
1746 | Life of Heinrich Pestalozzi |
1754 | Gough's 'Practical Grammar of the English Tongue' |
1760 | Anderson starts evening classes at Glasgow |
1761 | Priestley publishes 'The Rudiments of English Grammar' |
1761 | Death of Griffith Jones |
1761 | Priestley joins Warrington Academy |
1762 | Lowth publishes "Short Introduction to English Grammar" |
1762 | Rousseau's 'Emile' |
1763 | La Chalotais's 'Essai d'education nationale' |
1763 | La Chalotais' "Essai d' Éducation" |
1765 | Priestley's history course syllabus published |
1765 | Priestley's "Essay" |
1768 | d'Erceville's "Compe Rendu" |
1769 | Life of James Hamiliton |
1771 | Fenning's 'New Grammar of the English Language' |
1774 | 48th edition of Dyche's "Guide to the English Tongue" |
1774 | Pestalozzi tries to run farm and opens school at Neuhof |
1775 | Davis's 'The Accidence' |
1778 | Priestley's "Observations Relating to Education" |
1780 | 'The Art of Teaching in Sport' published anonymously |
1783 | Meidinger's 'Praktische franzosiche Grammatik' |
1785 | Ussher's 'Elements of English Grammar' |
1785 | Bingham's "The Young Lady's Accidence" |
1791 | Taylor's 'An Easy Introduction of General Knowledge and Liberal Education' |
1793 | Fick's 'Praktische englische Sprachlehre' published |
1794 | Trimmer's 'The Charity School Spelling Book' |
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 |
1798 | Fenn's 'Grammatical Amusements in a Box' |
1798 | Fenn's 'Parsing Lessons for Elder Pupils' |
1798 | Fenn's 'Parsing Lessons for Young Children' |
1798 | Renn's "The Mother's Grammar" |
1798 | The Edgeworths' "Practical Education" |
1798 | Butler appointed headmaster of Shrewsbury |
1799 | Fenn's 'The Friend of Mothers' |
1799 | Gardiner's "The Young Ladies' English Grammar" |
1799 | Pestalozzi takes charge of infant school |
1800 | Wellesley established the College of Fort William in Calcutta |
1800 | Eves' 'The Grammar Play-thing' |
1800 | Royal Institution founded |
1801 | Pestalozzi's 'How Gertrud Teaches her Children' |
1802 | Health and Morals of Apprentices Bill passed |
1803 | Lancaster's "Improvements in Education" |
1804 | Lowth's 'An English Spelling Book' |
1804 | Webster revised his speller, now 'The American Spelling Book, revised edition' |
1805 | Pestalozzi in charge of school at Yverdon |
1805 | Trimmer's attack on Lancaster |
1806 | Reprint of Dyche's "Vocabularium Latiale" |
1806 | Birth of J S Mill |
1807 | "Parochial Schools Bill" |
1808 | The baccalaureat introduced |
1809 | Edgeworth's "Professional Education" |
1810 | Fenn's 'The Child's Grammar' |
1810 | Royal Lancastrian Association formed |
1811 | National Society formed |
1814 | British and Foreign School Society formed |
1814 | Wordsworth's last 2 books of the "Excursion" |
1816 | Owen opens infant school |
1816 | Stow sets up Sunday school |
1816 | Parliamentary committee looks at education of 'lower orders' |
1818 | "Education of the Lower Orders" report published |
1820 | Marcel's 'Practical Method' |
1820 | Brougham's Parish Schools Bill |
1820 | Birth of Spencer |
1823 | James Hamilton publishes 'The Hamiltonian System' |
1823 | Hartnoll's "Exposure of the Hamiltonian System" |
1823 | Wilderspin's "On the Importance of Educating the Infant Children of the Poor" |
1823 | Anderson lectures become Mechanics Institute |
1823 | Birkbeck helps in setting up of Mechanics Institute in London |
1824 | Birkbeck becomes president of the Mechanics' Institute |
1825 | Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge founded |
1825 | Campbell's letter to The Times |
1825 | Brougham's "Practical Observations" |
1825 | Birth of Huxley |
1826 | Life of Lambert Sauveur |
1826 | le Vert's "Analytical, Comparative and Demonstrative Mode of Tuition" |
1826 | Glasgow Infant School Society opened |
1828 | College opened in Gower Street |
1828 | Meeting to discuss alternative to London University |
1829 | Hamiliton's "The History, Principles, Practice, and Results of the Hamiltonian System" |
1830 | Jacotot's 'Enseignment universal' published |
1830 | Payne's 'A Compendius Exposition' published |
1830 | Last reprint of Dyche's "Guide to the English Tongue" |
1830 | Petition to incorporate University of London |
1831 | King's College, London opened |
1832 | Reform Act passes in British parliament |
1832 | Ticknor's 'Lecture on the Best Method of Teaching the Living Languages' |
1833 | First British parliamentary grant for education |
1833 | Government investigation into education provision in Britain |
1834 | Tiark's 'Introductory Grammar' published |
1834 | Ahn's 'New, Practical and Easy Method' |
1835 | Ollendorff's 'New Method' |
1835 | Macauley's Minute to Lord Bentinck |
1836 | First edition of McGuffey Readers |
1836 | Home and Colonial Infant School Society formed |
1836 | Glasgow Normal Seminary opened |
1836 | Kennedy headmaster of Shrewsbury |
1836 | University of London granted charter |
1836 | Central Society of Education founded |
1836 | Normal School of Design grant |
1838 | Kay obtains grant for Norwood school |
1839 | Central admin authority set up in Britain |
1839 | Kay becomes secretary of Committee of Council for Education |
1840 | Grammar Schools Act passed |
1840 | Battersea Normal School opens |
1841 | St. Mark's college founded |
1842 | Government grant to Norwood school |
1843 | Graham's Factory Bill |
1845 | B. Sears' 'The Ciceronian or the Prussian Method of Teaching the Elements of the Latin Language' published |
1845 | Sweet's life |
1845 | Blackie's article in the Foreign Quarterly Review |
1845 | Whewell's "Of a Liberal Education in General" |
1845 | Royal College of Chemistry opened |
1846 | Committee of Council on Education scheme announced |
1846 | Hook's "Education of the People" |
1846 | College of Perceptors founded |
1847 | Grant for Kay-Shuttleworth's training scheme |
1848 | A. J. Ellis's "Essentials of Phonetics" |
1848 | Post-grad science tripos introduced at Cambridge |
1848 | Grant for Kay-Shuttleworth's training scheme |
1848 | Queen's College founded |
1849 | Ploetz's "Schulgrammatik der franzosischen Sprache" |
1849 | College of Perceptors incorporated |
1850 | National Public Schools Association founded |
1850 | Education Bill introduced to British Parliament |
1850 | Birth of Vietor |
1851 | School of Mines and Science established |
1851 | Arnold works as Schools Inspector |
1852 | J. S. Blackies' two lectures in Aberdeen, 'On the Studying and Teaching of Languages' |
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' |
1853 | Robertson's "Practical Lessons in French" |
1854 | Spencer's magazine articles |
1854 | Working Men's College founded |
1854 | Froebel disciple starts Kindergarten |
1856 | Order to establish Education Department |
1857 | Pemberton's "Euphonic System" |
1857 | Call for Oxbridge school exams |
1858 | Oxford and Cambridge local exams for secondary school first given |
1858 | Newcastle Commission |
1858 | New charter for London University |
1859 | Lowe becomes Vice-President of Education Department |
1859 | Mill's "On Liberty" |
1861 | BFSS female teacher training facility moves to Stockwell |
1861 | Clarendon chairs Royal Commission |
1861 | Arnold's "Popular Education in France" |
1861 | Spencer's "Education - Intellectual, Moral and Physical" |
1862 | Revised Code document |
1862 | Attempt to open London University to women |
1863 | Cambridge Overseas Exams exams sat overseas for first time |
1863 | Arnold starts to criticise Revised Code |
1864 | Prendergast's 'The Mastery of Languages' published |
1864 | Clarendon Commission report published |
1864 | Taunton Commission |
1864 | Arnold's "A French Eton" |
1864 | Thring's "Education and School" |
1867 | 2nd Reform Act passed |
1867 | Marcel's "Study of Languages" |
1867 | J S Mill's "Inaugural Address" |
1868 | Public Schools Act passed |
1868 | Forster in charge of Education Department |
1868 | Taunton Commission report published |
1868 | Arnold's "Higher Schools and Universities in Germany" |
1869 | Sauveur and Heness open their first school in New Haven, Connecticut |
1869 | Endowed Schools Act passed |
1869 | Headmasters conference at Uppingham |
1869 | Woman-only Cambridge University exam |
1869 | Women's college started at Hitchen |
1870 | Education Act passed |
1870 | Prendergast patents his 'Mastery' system |
1870 | Forster introduces Education Bill |
1870 | Duke of Devonshire Commission |
1870 | National Union of Elementary Teachers formed |
1872 | Marcel's 'Rational Method' |
1873 | College at Hitchen moves to Girton |
1873 | 1st professorship in education in England |
1874 | Sauveur's 'An Introduction to the Teaching of Living Languages' published |
1874 | Factory Act passed |
1874 | Froebel Society founded |
1875 | R. H. Quick publishes 'Account of Celebrated Methods' |
1875 | Newnham College opened |
1876 | 1st university chairs of education in the UK |
1877 | Latham's 'On the Action of Examinations' |
1877 | Life of Palmer |
1877 | Livery Companies of London committee |
1878 | Berlitz opens his first school in Rhode Island |
1878 | Ploetz, G. C.'s 'English Vocabulary' |
1878 | Levy's open letter to Sauveur |
1879 | Sayce's "How to Learn a Language" |
1879 | Teachers' Training Syndicate founded |
1879 | Headmistresses association founded |
1880 | Gouin's 'The Art of Teaching and Studying Languages' published |
1880 | Hogg's polytechnic moves to Regent St. |
1882 | Wilhelm Vietor's pamphlet 'Der Sprachunterricht muss umkehren' published |
1882 | Start of annual conferences of society of French teachers of French in Britain |
1883 | Modern Language Association of America founded |
1883 | Thring's "Theory and Practice of Teaching" |
1883 | Finsbury Technical College opened |
1883 | Independent Schools Association founded |
1884 | Felix Francke publishes 'Die praktische Spracherlernung' |
1884 | Sweet presents paper, 'On the Practical Study of Language' |
1884 | Royal Commission on Technical Instruction report published |
1884 | Association of assistant mistresses |
1885 | Sonnenschein founds the Birmingham Grammatical Society |
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' |
1885 | Cambridge Training College for Women founded |
1886 | Phonetic Teachers' Association founded |
1886 | Passy's 'Elements d'anglais parle' |
1886 | Jespersen proposes establishing a phonetic alphabet |
1886 | Modern Languages Tripos started at Cambridge |
1886 | Royal Commission on elementary education appointed |
1886 | 2nd edition of Vietor's "Der Sprachunterricht" |
1886 | 1st issue of 'The Phonetic Teacher' appeared |
1887 | Vietor's 'Englisches Lesebuch' published |
1887 | Nettleship's 'The Study of Modern European Languages' |
1887 | Passy's 'Les sons du francais' |
1887 | Colbeck's "On the Teaching of Modern Languages" |
1887 | Jowett's address to teachers of French |
1888 | Michael Philip West's life |
1888 | Klinghardt's 'Ein Jahr Erfahrungen mit der neuen Methode' published |
1888 | Edgeworth's 'The statistics of examinations' |
1888 | First version of IPA published |
1888 | Widgery's 'The Teaching of Languages in Schools' published |
1888 | Cross Commission issues reports |
1888 | Vietor becomes president of PTA |
1889 | IPA's journal 'Le Maitre Phonetique' first published |
1889 | Technical Instruction Act |
1889 | PTA changes name to Phonetic Association |
1889 | NUET drops Elementary from title |
1890 | Cheltenham Conference organised by MacGowan and Widgery to discuss recent FLT developments. |
1890 | Sweet's 'A Primer of Spoken English' published |
1890 | BFSS teacher training facility moves to Isleworth |
1890 | Day training colleges established in British universities |
1890 | Headmasters' Association founded |
1890 | Cattell's "Mental Tests and Measurements" |
1891 | Collins' 'The Study of English Literature' |
1891 | Association of assitant masters founded |
1892 | Modern Language Association of Great Britain formed |
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' |
1893 | 2nd edition of Vietor's "Elemente der Phonetik" |
1894 | Swan's "The Systematic Teaching of Languages" |
1894 | Royal Commission on Secondary Education appointed |
1895 | Surrey County Council subsidise French course taught using Gouin method |
1895 | Death of Huxley |
1895 | Royal Commission on Secondary Education's report |
1896 | 1st English edition of Comenius's "Didactica Magna" |
1897 | IPA takes its final name |
1897 | Rice's "The Futility of the Spelling Grind" |
1898 | Hornby's life |
1898 | Ripman & Alge's "First French Book" |
1899 | Henry Sweet publishes 'The Practical Study of Languages' |
1900 | College Entrance Examination Board set up |
1900 | 'Report of the Committee of Twelve' published |
1901 | Jespersen's 'Sprogunevisning' published |
1901 | Rosenthal's 'The German Language' |
1902 | Vietor's 'Die Methodik' published |
1902 | ICS language courses issued. |
1902 | Education Act |
1903 | Thorndike's 'Heredity, Correlation and Sex Differences in School Ability' |
1903 | Oxford Honours School of Modern Languages set up |
1903 | Palmer opens school in Verviers |
1903 | HCISS moves to Wood Green |
1903 | Death of Spencer |
1904 | Jespersen's 'How to Teach a Foreign Language' published |
1904 | Thorndike's 'Mental and Social Measurements' |
1904 | Onion's 'An Advanced English Syntax' |
1905 | Cattell's 'Examinations, grades and credits' |
1905 | Binet's article in 'L'anne psychologique' |
1905 | Carneige Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching founded |
1906 | Palmer's "Méthode Palmer" |
1906 | Jones starts teaching at University of London |
1907 | Palmer begins correspondence with Jones |
1909 | Jones's 'The Pronunciation of English' published |
1909 | Watson's "The Beginnings of the Teaching of Modern Subjects in England" |
1910 | Thorndike's article 'Handwriting' |
1910 | Palmer's 1st article in "Le Maître Phonétique" |
1911 | JCGT's report published |
1912 | Thorndike's 'Education: a First Book' |
1912 | Board of Education Circular 797 |
1912 | Palmer and Jones meet |
1913 | Jones's 'A phonetic dictionary of the English Language' published |
1913 | Maryland proposes aural/oral testing in Modern Languages |
1913 | CPE first set |
1913 | Board of Education Circular 826 |
1913 | Leathe's "What is Education?" |
1914 | West's 'Education and Psychology' |
1914 | Palmer returns to England from Belgium |
1915 | Yerkes et al's 'A Point Scale for Measuring Mental Ability' |
1915 | Palmer invited to give course of lectures on methodology. |
1915 | Saito's 'Idiomological English-Japanese Dictionary' |
1916 | Stanford-Binet scale published |
1916 | Palmer & Kinoshita's Japenese beginners' voacbulary |
1916 | Palmer joins staff at UCL |
1916 | Committee appointed by PM to look at language teaching |
1916 | Board of Education's "Inquiry into the teaching of French in London Secondary Schools" |
1916 | National committee established to advise on advanced course in modern studies |
1917 | Palmer publishes 'The Scientific Study and Teaching of Languages' |
1917 | Jones publishes 2-volume survey of 'Negro' education in the southern states of America |
1917 | Jones's 'The English Pronouncing Dictionary' published |
1917 | Council of the American Psychological Society endorse Yerken's psychological testing of army recruits |
1917 | SSEC established |
1917 | Monroe, DeVoss, and Kelley's "Educational Tests and Measurements" |
1918 | Jones's 'Outline of English Phonetics' published |
1918 | 'Modern Studies' report published |
1918 | SC and HSC established |
1918 | The Leathes Report: Modern Studies |
1918 | Death of Vietor |
1919 | Cleveland Plan |
1920 | Lambley's history of French language teaching in Tudor England |
1921 | Thorndike publishes 'The Teacher's Word Book' |
1921 | Palmer publishes 'Principles of Language Study' |
1921 | 'The Teaching of English in England' (the Newbolt Report) published. |
1921 | Sampson's 'English for the English' published. |
1921 | Palmer's 'The Oral Method of Teaching Languages' published |
1921 | Burt's report to the London County Council |
1921 | Sawayanagi visits London. |
1922 | Jones publishes 1st Phelps-Stokes report |
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 |
1923 | Palmer's 'Sequence Series: Questions, Sequence Series: Answers' published |
1923 | Imperial Education Conference held |
1923 | Tacke's paper "Der Sprachunterricht muss umkehren" |
1924 | Palmer publishes 'A Grammar of Spoken English' |
1924 | Modern Foreign Language Study |
1924 | Ohio State Uni. installs a 'phonetic laboratory' |
1924 | First Pressey teaching machine |
1924 | Hornby arrives in Japan |
1925 | Colonial Office publishes "Memorandum on Education Policy in British Tropical Africa". |
1925 | Jones publishes 2nd Phelps-Stokes report |
1925 | Palmer publishes 'English through Actions' |
1925 | College Entrance Examination Board commisions construction of forerunner to SATs |
1925 | Palmer's 'Systematic Exercises in Sentence Building' |
1925 | Roach becomes involved with CPE |
1926 | West publishes 'Bilingualism' |
1926 | Bryn Mawr Test of Ability to Understand Spoken French project started |
1926 | West's 'Learning to Read a Foreign Language' |
1926 | Hedgcock's "Active French Course" |
1926 | Pressey's "A Simple Apparatus Which Gives Tests and Scores - and Teaches" |
1926 | Hadow Report |
1926 | Palmer's "A Dictionary of English Pronunciation" |
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 |
1927 | American Association of Collegiate Registrars resolution on testing foreign students |
1927 | Pressey's "A Machine for Automatic Teaching of Drill Material" |
1927 | IRET starts on controlled vocabulary list |
1927 | Palmer's "The Five Speech-Learning Habits" |
1927 | Kelley's "Interpretation of Educational Measurements" |
1927 | Stoddard's "Tests and Measure- ments in High School Instruction" |
1927 | Symond's "Measurement in Secondary Education" |
1927 | Well's "Mental Tests in Clinical Practice" |
1927 | Bronner's "Manual of Individual Mental Tests and Testing" |
1927 | Spearman's "Abilities of Man" |
1927 | Smith & Wright's "Second Revision of the Bibliography of Educational Measurements" |
1927 | Faraday's Christmas lectures |
1928 | Wood's test for the Cooperative Test Service |
1928 | CEEB set up a commission to assess need for testing English ability of foreign students |
1928 | BoE's "Report on the Position of French in the First School Certificate Examinations" |
1929 | Coleman Report |
1929 | 2nd commission of CEEB presents outline for test of English ability of foreign students |
1929 | West's 'Language in Education' |
1929 | Palmer's article 'What shall we call a word?' |
1929 | Palmer's article 'What is an idiom?' |
1929 | I C Ward's 'The Phonetics of English' |
1929 | Henmon's study on testing |
1929 | IAAM's "Memorandum" |
1929 | Collin's "A French Course for Schools" |
1930 | 'First Interim Report on Vocabulary Selection' published |
1930 | Symond's 'Foreign Language Prognosis Test' |
1931 | 1st Conference on Examinations held |
1931 | 'Second Interim Report on Vocabulary Selection' |
1931 | Fowler's 'The Art of Teaching English' |
1931 | Fife's "A Summary of Reports" |
1931 | Palmer invites Hornby to help with word list |
1931 | Hornby's first grammar article in IRET Bulletin |
1931 | 'First Interim Report on English Collocations' published |
1931 | CPE sat outside of the UK for 1st time |
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 |
1932 | Palmer's 'Some Notes on Construction-Patterns' |
1932 | Saito's 'Monograph on Prepositions' |
1932 | Palmer & Redman's 'This Language-learning Business' |
1932 | Faucett starts training of EFL teachers at London |
1933 | 'The Oxford English Course' published |
1933 | West's 'New Method Conversation' published |
1933 | West's 'Learning to Speak a Foreign Language' |
1933 | 'Second Interim Report on English Collocations' published. |
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 |
1934 | Palmer's 'Specimens of English Construction Patterns' |
1934 | Palmer's 'Essay on Lexicology' |
1934 | Ballard's 'Teaching the Mother Tongue' |
1934 | Coleman's "Experiments and Studies in Modern Language Teaching" |
1935 | West publishes 'The New Method English Dictionary' |
1935 | West publishes 'Definition Vocabulary' |
1935 | Ogden's 'Counter-Offensive' published |
1935 | 2nd Conference on Examinations held |
1935 | 2nd Carnegie Conference held in London |
1936 | "Interim Report on Vocabulary Selection" published |
1936 | Ford Foundation established |
1936 | Palmer returns to UK |
1936 | Hornby takes over editorship of IRET Bulletin |
1936 | Somerville's "A Primer of French Grammar" |
1937 | Palmer and Hornby publish 'Thousand-Word English' |
1937 | University of Cambridge recognises CPE as entrance qualification |
1937 | Kaulfers' article 'Objective tests and exercises in French pronunciation' |
1937 | Saxelby's "En Route" and "En Marche" |
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 | 3rd Conference on Examinations held |
1938 | Sammartino's Language Achievement Scale |
1938 | Buros' 1st 'Mental Measurements Yearbook' |
1938 | Eckersley's 'Essential English for Foreign Students' |
1938 | Spens Report, "Secondary Education" |
1938 | Palmer's "New Method Grammar" |
1939 | First English Language Institute in the USA set up at University of Michigan |
1939 | Cambridge Lower Certificate first sat |
1940 | Royal Charter granted to British Council |
1940 | Hornby and Ishikawa publish ''A Beginners' English-Japanese Dictionary' |
1940 | Machines used for first time in reporting results for CEEB exams |
1941 | Buros' 2nd 'Mental Measurements Yearbook' |
1941 | Joint Committee on English Examinations established |
1941 | Birth of Krashen |
1941 | Fries 'Intensive Course in English for Latin-American Students' |
1941 | Hornby returns to England and is recruited by BC |
1941 | Intensive Language Program of the American Council of Learned Societies |
1941 | Norwood Report |
1942 | Palmer's 'New Method English Course for West Africa' 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 |
1943 | March of Time produces a film to teach Basic English |
1944 | Palmer's 'The International Course' published |
1944 | Thorndike and Lorge's 'The Teacher's Word Book of 30,000 Words' published |
1944 | Brereton's 'The Case for Examinations' |
1944 | Agard et al's survey of ASTP begins |
1944 | Roach's paper on UCLES oral exams |
1944 | Education Act |
1944 | Bodmer & Hogben's "The Loom of Language" |
1945 | Richard and Gibson's 'A Pocket Book of Basic English' published |
1945 | Fries' 'Teaching and Learning English as a Foreign Language' published |
1945 | Zandvoort's 'A Handbook of English Grammar' published |
1945 | BBC sets up its English by Radio Deparment |
1945 | Peers' "'New' Tongues or Modern Language Teaching of the Future" |
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 | Universite Laval, Quebec installs language lab. |
1946 | Hornby edits ELT |
1947 | Empson teaches in China |
1947 | Closed circuit TV used in language courses at Creighton Uni, Nebraska. |
1947 | Hornby's article 'Linguistic pedagogy IV' |
1948 | ETS established |
1948 | A Learner's Dictionary of Current English (LDCE) |
1948 | Agard & Dunkel start study to compare 'new' and 'traditional methods |
1948 | Dunkel's "Second Language Learning" |
1948 | Fries article in "Language Learning" |
1949 | Palmer dies |
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 |
1949 | Buros' 3rd 'Mental Measurements Yearbook' |
1949 | Tyler's "Basic Principles of Curriculum and Instruction" |
1949 | 2nd IAAM Memorandum |
1949 | James' "An Essay on the Content of education" |
1949 | 1st language laboratory developed |
1950 | Hornby's series of articles in ELT |
1950 | American Council of Learned Societies commissioned to develop textbooks |
1950 | GSL to be used as basis of Lower Cert |
1950 | BC conference in Mahableshwar |
1951 | First language course on commercial TV |
1951 | Blamires' 'English in Education' |
1951 | Centre d'Etude du Francais Elemetaire established |
1951 | SC & HSC replaced with O and A levels |
1952 | 'The Advanced Learner's Dictionary of Current Dictionary' published |
1952 | ACLS's 'Structural Notes and Corpus' |
1952 | TAVOR produced |
1952 | CREDIF established |
1953 | 'General Service List' published |
1953 | UNESCO monograph 'Use of Vernacular Languages in Education' |
1953 | Unesco conference on African languages and English in education, in Nigeria |
1953 | 1st part of Gilbert's modern language teaching review |
1953 | UNESCO-sponsored seminar on teaching of modern languages |
1953 | Role of Foreign Languages in American Schools conference |
1953 | "The Teaching of Foreign Languages in the Elementary School" |
1953 | Haycraft and wife found their 1st school |
1954 | Hornby's 'A Guide to Patterns and Usage in English' published |
1954 | Hornby's 'Oxford Progressive English for Adult Learners' published |
1954 | MLA's pamphlet 'Grammar in Relation to Language Teaching' |
1954 | 2nd part of Gilbert's modern language teaching review |
1954 | "Le Francais Elementaire" |
1954 | Morris's "The Art of Teaching English as a Living Language" |
1954 | Nida's "Learning a Foreign Language" |
1954 | UNESCO Institute of education established |
1954 | BBC starts to develop radio FL courses |
1954 | Skinner's "The Science of Learning and the Art of Teaching" |
1955 | Death of E. V. Gatenby |
1955 | BC conference in Oxford |
1955 | 3rd part of Gilbert's modern language teaching review |
1955 | Lado's "Annotated Bibliography" |
1956 | Official Committee on the Teaching of English Overseas' reports to British Cabinet |
1956 | English Language Exploratory Committee conference |
1956 | 3rd IAAM Memorandum |
1956 | Kamenev's French course used at school in England |
1956 | MoE's pamphlet "Modern Languages" |
1956 | Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives |
1957 | School of Applied Linguistics established at Edinburgh University |
1957 | White Paper on work of the British Council |
1957 | FSI used for mandatory testing of Foreign Service personnel |
1957 | Joint Committee decide to set up Executive Committee |
1957 | Pooley's 'Teaching English Grammar' |
1957 | Gorosch & Axelsson's ELT in elementary school project |
1957 | Frisby's 'Teaching English' |
1958 | National Defense Education Act passed |
1958 | Foundations laid for CSE |
1958 | TAVOR used in East Ham |
1958 | Stern's "The Golden Age of Audiolingualism" |
1959 | Washington Conference on Teaching English Abroad |
1959 | 1st volume of Hornby's 'The Teaching of Structural Words and Sentence Patterns' |
1959 | First Commonwealth Education Conference |
1959 | Educational Low-Priced Book Scheme in operation |
1959 | Allen's 'Living English structure' |
1959 | CEFE renamed CREDIF |
1959 | Carroll & Sapon's "Modern Language Aptitude Test" |
1959 | Crowther Report |
1959 | Catford's review of EFL in Britain |
1960 | Stack's 'The Language Laboratory' published |
1960 | ARELS set up |
1960 | West's 'Teaching English in Difficult Circumstances' |
1960 | Nutford House Conference |
1960 | West's 'Minimum Adequate Vocabulary' |
1960 | PLATO project started at Uni of Illinois |
1960 | Latin or Greek qualification dropped as entrance requirement to Cambridge University |
1960 | Wynburne's "Vertical Translation and the Teaching of English" |
1960 | Corder's "English Language Teaching and Television" |
1960 | M A Frankel begins teaching in Scotland |
1961 | Commonwealth Conference on the Teaching of English as a Second Language held |
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 | Washington conference |
1961 | Hornby Educational Trust established |
1961 | Anglo-American Conference in Cambridge |
1961 | Ford Foundation discusses collaboration with 4 British universities |
1961 | Fries & Fries' 'Foundations for English Teaching' |
1961 | Hayter Report |
1961 | Riegel's 'Les croquis' |
1961 | English Teaching Newsletter starts to be published |
1961 | 1st language laboratory established in UK college |
1961 | OUP take over publication of "English Language Teaching Journal" |
1961 | Williams' "The Long Revolution" |
1961 | Lado's "Language Testing" |
1961 | Some Leeds primary schools start French at 10 |
1961 | Reid's "An Exploratory Survey of Foreign Language Teaching by Television in the United States" |
1961 | Rignet & Fry's "Current Teaching-Machine Programs and Programming Techniques" |
1961 | Holland & Skinner's "The Analysis of Behavior" |
1961 | Experiments with mini-tests at ARELS |
1961 | MLA assessment of FL teaching in US high schools |
1961 | WR Lee edits ELT Journal |
1961 | 2nd edition of Barnard's "History of English Education" |
1962 | International House starts publicly to offer training courses |
1962 | ETS selected to administer the TOEFL |
1962 | First UK secondary school language lab installed |
1962 | Annan Report |
1962 | International meeting on languages in primary education |
1962 | SSEC dismantled |
1962 | FBI's "Foreign Languages in Industry" |
1962 | Curriculum Study Group formed |
1962 | Dodson's "The BIlingual Method" |
1962 | "Le Francais: Ecouter et Parler" |
1962 | "Let's Speak French" |
1962 | "Parlons Francais" distributed in the UK |
1962 | Robinson's "Eight-year-olds in the Language Laboratory" |
1962 | Adamson appointed at Birmingham University |
1963 | Hayes' 'Language Laboratory Facilities' published |
1963 | CREDIF's 'Bonjour Line' published |
1963 | Robbins Report |
1963 | Nuffield Project started |
1963 | Modern Languages in the Grammar School |
1963 | English Teaching Forum starts to be published |
1963 | Advanced Learners Dictionary of Current English 2nd Edition ALD2 |
1963 | Keating Report |
1963 | Newmark becomes chairman of Linguistics Department at UC San Diego |
1963 | Gattegno's "Teaching Foreign Languages in Schools the Silent Way" |
1963 | Spicer's team at Leeds Uni begin work on "En Avant" |
1963 | The Pilot Scheme started |
1963 | Stern's "Foreign Languages in Primary Education" |
1963 | Goodman's "Programmed Learning and Teaching Machines - an Introduction" |
1963 | MLA starts to look at alternative syllabus for FL o'level |
1963 | Otter's aural-oral test piloted |
1963 | "Technical Guide for the Selection, Use, and Maintenance of Language Laboratory Facilities" |
1963 | MLA Cooperative Foreign Language Tests |
1963 | Davies responsible for test design at Birmingham University |
1964 | 'English 900' published |
1964 | TOEFL first sat |
1964 | Davies starts to develop test battery for British Council |
1964 | 3rd Commonwealth Education Conference |
1964 | Brooks coins term Audiolingualism |
1964 | Audio-Visual Language Association formed |
1964 | Language courses offered over the telephone in North America |
1964 | Carroll's conference address in Berlin |
1964 | Council of Europe's "Major Project - Modern Languages" |
1964 | Committee on Reasearch & Development in Modern Languages |
1964 | AEB O Level set for 1st time without prose translation into foreign language |
1964 | Schools Council for Curriculum and Examinations formed |
1964 | Ministry of Education Circular 2/64 |
1964 | BBC's "French for Beginners" |
1964 | Hilton's "The Language Laboratory" |
1964 | Adam's "Language Laboratory Pattern Drills in French: basic series" |
1964 | 2nd phase of Otter's pilot aural-oral tests |
1964 | BCC's FL tests first set |
1964 | Prototype of "En Avant" becomes available |
1964 | Teachers for the Pilot Scheme trainedi n Paris and Besancon |
1964 | Lado's "Language Teaching A Scientific Approach" |
1964 | JMB's Test in English developed |
1964 | M A Frankel teaches in Uganda |
1964 | NATE founded |
1964 | Bowers becomes BC officer |
1964 | Adamson made Tutor to Overseas Students |
1965 | Howatt Webb & Knight's 'A Modern Course in Business English' published |
1965 | Close's 'The English we Use for Science' published |
1965 | "An International Reader's Dictionary" published. |
1965 | Centre for Information on Language Teaching and Research (CILT) founded. |
1965 | CSE first introduced |
1965 | 1st French immersion kindergarten class started in Canada |
1965 | Tyrer's "A Programmed German Grammar" |
1965 | "Linguistics and Programmed Instruction in Modern Language Teaching" |
1965 | Turner's "Introduction to the Language Laboratory" |
1965 | 3rd phase of Otter's aural-oral tests |
1965 | Secretary of State for Education's Circular 10/65 |
1965 | "A Vocabulary and Reading test for Students of English as a Second Language" |
1965 | "International Conference: Modern Foreign Language Teaching Report" |
1966 | Materials development project set up at Leeds Institute of Education |
1966 | Chomsky's address to the North East Conference |
1966 | Berlitz becomes a subsidiary of Macmillan, Inc |
1966 | 2nd International meeting on languages in primary education held |
1966 | Pimsleur's "Language Aptitude Battery" |
1966 | En Avant becomes commercially available |
1966 | "Le Francais d'Aujourd'hui" |
1966 | "French: a Structural Approach" |
1966 | "German: a Structural Approach" |
1966 | Corder's "The Visual Element in LAnguage Teaching" |
1966 | JMB trials a test based on MLA project |
1966 | Initial 'blueprint' of ARELS Oral exam |
1966 | JMB's Test in English (overseas) first sat |
1966 | Dartmouth Conference |
1966 | Pergamon's "Referenec Book of English Words and Phrases" |
1966 | 1st units of Zambian primary course introduced |
1967 | Schools Council project at University of Birmingham |
1967 | 'DELTA' first offered by RSA |
1967 | ATEFL founded |
1967 | TESOL formed |
1967 | Alexander's 'First Things First' |
1967 | 4th IAAM Memorandum |
1967 | Carroll & Sapon's "Elementary Modern Language Aptitude Test" |
1967 | Cambridge University's entrance requires only one foreign language qualification |
1967 | Nuffield Project's materials for Spanish, German and Russian start to be published |
1967 | ARELS Diploma of Proficiency in Spoken English and Comprehension 1st set |
1967 | Cane's study into teachers' attitudes to INSET |
1967 | Pimsleur's Modern Foreign Language Proficiency Tests |
1967 | Dixon's "Growth through English" |
1967 | Lusaka evaluation of Zambian primary course |
1968 | First Berlitz centre in Asia, The Tokyo language center. |
1968 | Candlin's 'Present Day English for Foreign Students' |
1968 | Broughton's 'Success with English' |
1968 | Rivers' 'Teaching Foreign-Language Skills' |
1968 | Titone's "Teaching ForeignLanguage: An Historical Sketch" |
1968 | Residential wekend French courses ran by Hertfordshire LEA |
1968 | First 'reciprocal' English/Spanish course held at York uni |
1968 | Burstall's interim report on the Pilot Scheme |
1968 | Mackin & Carver's "A Higher Course in English Study" |
1968 | Hall-Dennis Report |
1969 | 'Languages for Special Purposes' conference report published |
1969 | 'The Turners' published |
1969 | 'Scope, Stage 1' published |
1969 | 'A Course in Basic Scientific English' published |
1969 | Kelly's "25 Centuries of Language Teaching" |
1969 | Howatt's "Programmed Learning and the Language Teacher" |
1969 | Schools Council's FLT regional conferences |
1969 | Spicer's survey of initial training of language teachers |
1969 | NERC Curriculum Conference |
1970 | Berlitz introduces its home study materials |
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. |
1970 | John Swales 4 academic years as Head of the English Department, Faculty of Engineering, University of Libya. During this |
1970 | "Language in Education in Eastern Afica" |
1970 | Last part of "Longman Audio-Visual French" published |
1970 | M A Frankel is DoS at BC Sao Paulo, Brazil |
1970 | Hayes becomes BC officer |
1970 | Haycraft meets King at Anglo- American reunion on ELT |
1971 | Swales' 'Writing Scientific English' published |
1971 | ATEFL renamed IATEFL |
1971 | The Threshold Level initiated |
1971 | Nash's "The place of the English language in the USSR" |
1971 | Barnard's 'Advanced English Vocabulary' |
1971 | Stanford Conference on Individualising Foreign Language Instruction |
1971 | Ruschlikon Symposium |
1971 | The Group of Experts formed |
1971 | "Oxford English Picture Dictionary" |
1971 | Brown works at BC |
1971 | Hawkes works in Ghana |
1971 | Johns joins Birmingham University |
1972 | Wilkin's Council of Europe paper published |
1972 | 'Concept 7-9' published |
1972 | Lewis's 'Concise Pronouncing Dictionary of British and American English' |
1972 | Marechal's "Histoire" |
1972 | National Council for Modern Languages established |
1972 | Savignon's experiment with communicative approach |
1972 | Lambert & Tucker's review of St Lambert project |
1972 | Bullock's committee set up |
1972 | "National Child Development Study" |
1972 | 'Sections bilingues' trial started at Mill Hill school |
1972 | Gattengo's "Teaching Foreign Languages in Schools - The Silent Way" |
1972 | R R Jordan takes up post at Manchester University |
1972 | M A Frankel works as inspector in BC ELD |
1972 | Johnson's recommendation to centralise ELT at Chulalongkorn Uni. |
1972 | Anderson's study of achievement tests |
1972 | Somalia adopts Somali as language of administration |
1972 | English Language Teaching renamed ELT Journal |
1972 | Non-commonwealth students majority of UK HE foreign students |
1973 | Van Ek's 'The Threshold Level' published |
1973 | TOEFL Policy Council formed |
1973 | Walford's 'North Sea Exploration' |
1973 | Oller and Richards' 'Focus on the Learner' |
1973 | Bernstein's 'Class, Code and Control' |
1973 | Second Handbook of Research on Teaching |
1973 | St Wolfgang Symposium |
1973 | White's "Towards a Compulsory Curriculum" |
1973 | Trim et al's "Systems Development in Adult Language Learning" |
1973 | Modern Language Centre's "Good Language Learner" study |
1973 | Zambian Ministry of Education primary English survey. |
1973 | CDC evaluation of Zambian primary English course |
1973 | Secondary English Project started in Nigeria |
1974 | IATEFL holds first international conference in Budapest |
1974 | Cook's 'English Topics' |
1974 | "Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary of Current English" published |
1974 | Lachowicz's 'Using Medical English' |
1974 | Allen & Widdowson's 'English in Focus' series |
1974 | Dunkin & Biddle's "The Study of Teaching" |
1974 | NFER's "Primary French in the Balance" |
1974 | Working party on "English Tuition and Testing" meet. |
1974 | Harrison et al's "Topic English" |
1974 | spread of use of introduction to languages in Australian schools |
1974 | Recommendation of language training assistance at Ain Shams |
1974 | Teacher training edition of ELT Journal |
1975 | Jupp and Hodlin's 'Industrial English' published |
1975 | Major revision of UCLES exam syllabus |
1975 | 'The Bullock Report' |
1975 | IEA's "The Teaching of English as A foreign Language in Ten Countries" |
1975 | Green's study on language laboratories |
1975 | Crystal and Davy's "Advanced Conversational Skills" |
1975 | "Diskursstruktur und bungstypologie" |
1975 | Rivers' "Practical Guide to the Teaching of French" |
1975 | EFPS project starts |
1975 | Widdowson's "Stylistics and the Teaching of Literature" |
1976 | Harvey and Wheeler's 'North Sea Challenge' |
1976 | Stevick's 'Memory, Meaning and Method' published |
1976 | Chastain's "Developing Second-Language Skills" |
1976 | Curran's "Counseling-Learning in Second Languages" |
1976 | Coste's Threshold Level French syllabus |
1976 | "Crisis in Modern Languages" Conference |
1976 | P A Fabian serves as chairman of ARELS Examination Trust |
1976 | 1st meeting of ELTS Test Development Committee |
1976 | Feasability study for RSA communicative English test |
1976 | Living Hong Kong Social Studies 1C |
1976 | Dudley-Evans joins English for Overseas Students Unit at Birmingham University |
1976 | Further EFPS arrive in Cameroon |
1976 | Universal Primary Education Policy initiated |
1976 | Ain Shams CDELT project |
1976 | Diploma at Ain Shams runs |
1976 | Longman's "Nucleus" series |
1976 | Fabian chairman of ARELS exam trust |
1977 | 'Lado English Series' published |
1977 | O'Neill's 'The limits of functional/notional syllabuses' |
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 | Van Ek's 'Waystage' published |
1977 | Curran's death |
1977 | Curran's "Counselling-Learning: A Whole-Person Model for Education" |
1977 | 3rd meeting of European Modern Language Project |
1977 | Hoy's "Early Teaching of Modern Languages" |
1977 | HMI's "Modern Languages in Comprehensive Schools" |
1977 | JMB's TiE (Overseas) residence regulation raised to 5 years |
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 | M A Frankel works at Chulalongkorn University, Thailand |
1977 | Grade 6 reading survey in Fiji |
1977 | Group of Experts work formalised |
1977 | Pilot EFPS teacher training scheme |
1977 | Communication skills need identified at Uni of Dar es Salaam |
1977 | Proposal for curriculum revision at Ain Shams |
1977 | MA runs at Ain Shams |
1977 | BC ESP seminar |
1977 | Strevens' "Special-purpose language learning" |
1978 | 'Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English' published |
1978 | NATESLA formed |
1978 | Munby's 'Communicative Syllabus Design' published |
1978 | Widdowson's 'Teaching Language as Communication' published |
1978 | Review of suggestopedia in Parade magazine |
1978 | Lozanov's 'Suggestology and Outlines of Suggestopedy' |
1978 | Moskowitz's 'Caring and Sharing in the Foreign Language Classroom' |
1978 | Brumfit's 'Review of D. A. Wilkins's Nototional Syllabuses' |
1978 | Alexander's 'Mainline Beginners' |
1978 | Hornby and Ruse's 'Oxford Student's Dictionary of Current English' published |
1978 | Curran's "Understanding" |
1978 | National Congress on Languages in Education |
1978 | President's Commission on Foreign Languages and International Studies |
1978 | York university project on good practice in FLT in comprehensive schools |
1978 | Hawkins & Perrin's "Intensive Language Teaching in Schools" |
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 | Allen at Guangzhou Institute of Foreign Languages |
1978 | Swales starts at University of Aston |
1978 | Gimson's rudimentary international pronunciation |
1978 | Diller's "The Language Teaching Controvesy" |
1978 | Zambian Curriculum Development Centre's objectives |
1978 | CSU established at University of Dar es Salaam |
1978 | Uni of Dar es Salaam's UTLI programme started |
1978 | British involvement at Ain Shams comes under KELT |
1978 | Bowers appointed Consultant |
1978 | Dunford House seminars started |
1979 | 'Longman Dictionary of English Idioms' published |
1979 | 'Dictionary of English Words in Context' published |
1979 | Bangalore Project started |
1979 | Trials of TSE sat |
1979 | Geddes & Sturtridge's 'Listening Links' |
1979 | Morrow & Johnson's 'Communicate' |
1979 | Jones's 'Notions in English' |
1979 | Underwood's 'Have You Heard?' |
1979 | Impey, G. starts teaching EFL |
1979 | Krashen lecture at Brigham Young Uni |
1979 | Slagter's Threshold Level Spanish syllabus |
1979 | 5th IAAM Memorandum |
1979 | Eton College's broadsheet on FL study |
1979 | "Foreign Languages for Overseas Trade" |
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 | Longman set up Readability Pilot Study |
1979 | Fijian national test norming project |
1979 | Rivers' study of teachers perceptions of FL learners' goals |
1979 | Cameroon Francophone training colleges start compulsory English |
1979 | KELT post started in Kenya |
1979 | Initial survey in Kenyatta University College |
1979 | Students tested at Kenyatta University College |
1979 | Brown becomes KELT Officer in Kenya |
1979 | Clarke obtains MA at Uni of Wales |
1979 | 2nd Dunford Seminar |
1979 | Holden's "Teacher Training" |
1979 | Teacher training radio broadcasts start in Gujarat |
1979 | Kerr's "Picture Cuecards" |
1979 | Widdowson's "Explorations in Applied Linguistics" |
1980 | ELTS first set |
1980 | PET first set |
1980 | COBUILD project launched |
1980 | van Ek & Alexander's 'Threshold Level English' |
1980 | "Chambers Universal Learners' Dictionary" published |
1980 | Stevick's 'A Way and Ways' published |
1980 | Carroll's 'Testing Communicative Performance' |
1980 | McDonough serves as Co-Chairperson of SELMOUS |
1980 | Brumfit's "Problems and Principles of English Teaching" |
1980 | Bolitho & Tomlinson's "Discover English" |
1980 | NCTM's "Agenda for Action" |
1980 | Brown's "Principles of Language Learning and Teaching" |
1980 | Hanna et al's "Contact and Communication" |
1980 | Dudley-Evans is KELT Adviser to the English Language Centre at Ngee Ann Polytechnic |
1980 | KELT project starts in Sierra Leone |
1980 | Methodology courses started under KELT in Somalia |
1980 | American and British teams working together at Ain Shams |
1980 | Bowers starts visiting professorship in Cairo |
1980 | Hayes starts as KELT advisory post |
1980 | 3rd Dunford Seminar |
1980 | IH approached regarding TEFL prep certificate |
1981 | TSE first sat |
1981 | Bejoint's study of dictionary use published |
1981 | Littlewood's 'Communicative Language Teaching: An Introduction' |
1981 | Watcyn-Jones's 'Pair Work' |
1981 | Malone's 'Towards a theory of intrinsically motivating instruction' |
1981 | Baldegger et al's Threshold Level German syllabus |
1981 | Hawkins' "Modern Languages in the Curriculum" |
1981 | RSA Exam in the Communicative Use of EFL first sat |
1981 | Jones'"Functions of English" 2nd edition |
1981 | Longman's "Lexicon of Contemporary English" |
1981 | Longman's "Illustrated Science Dictionary" |
1981 | "Oxford-Duden Pictorial Dictionary" |
1981 | Harrap's "2000 Word Dictionary" |
1981 | Sierra Leone KELT adviser training in UK |
1981 | 4th Dunford Seminar |
1981 | Book 1 of EFS ready |
1981 | Ain Shams decide not to use ESP materials |
1981 | 1st National Symposium on English teaching in Egypt |
1981 | "Language for Learning" seminar |
1981 | Abbott & Wingard's 'The Teaching of English as an International Language' |
1982 | 'Selected English Collocations' published |
1982 | Krashen's 'The fundamental pedagogical principle in second language teaching' |
1982 | Di frederico's 'Testing English for Academic Purposes' |
1982 | ACTFL's "Proficiency Guidelines" |
1982 | Blair's "innovative Approaches to Language Teaching" |
1982 | Quirk's "Nuclear English" |
1982 | Council of Europe Project started |
1982 | National Congress on Languages in Education sets up working party on language awareness |
1982 | 3rd book of EFPS project completed |
1982 | 2nd National Symposium on English teaching in Egypt |
1982 | 5th Dunford Seminar |
1982 | Communicative teaching discussion at Reading Uni |
1983 | 'Oxford Dictionary of Current Idiomatic English, Volume 2' published |
1983 | Krashen and Terrell's 'The Natural Approach' published |
1983 | ALLP begins |
1983 | ESP for the Arab World conference at Aston |
1983 | HMI report "Teaching Quality" |
1983 | Astley's "Get the Message!" |
1983 | Hawkins' "Spoken and Written Language" |
1983 | 6th Dunford Seminar |
1983 | ODA's shift in funding startegy |
1983 | Widdowson's "Learning Purpose and Language Use" |
1983 | James chapter in Case Studies in ELT |
1983 | Jordan's 'Case Studies in ELT' |
1984 | Davies & West's "Guide to English Language Examinations" |
1984 | Celce-Murcia & Larsen-Freeman's "The Grammar Book: An ESL/EFL Teacher's Course" |
1984 | Hawkin's "Awareness of Language: An Introduction" |
1984 | Jones' "How Languages Work" |
1984 | Gilbert's "Clear Speech" |
1984 | 7th Dunford Seminar |
1984 | Howatt's "A History of English Language Teaching" |
1985 | Swan Report |
1985 | Swan's 'A critical look at the Communicative Approach (2)' |
1985 | Swan's 'A critical look at the Communicative Approach (1)' |
1985 | Quirk & Widdowson's "English in the World" |
1985 | Astley & Hawkin's "Using Language" |
1985 | Pomphrey's "Language varieties and change" |
1985 | Dunlea's "How do we learn languages?" |
1985 | Donmall's report on language awareness initiatives in British schools |
1985 | Widdowson's response to Swan |
1985 | End of pilot project of AIOU's DE programme |
1986 | 'BBI Combinatory Dictionary' published |
1986 | Richards and Rogers' 'Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching' |
1986 | TWE first sat |
1986 | Lewis's 'The English Verb' |
1986 | ETIC closed to the public |
1986 | Cripeer & Davies' validation study of ELTS |
1987 | 'Collins Cobuild English language Dictionary' published |
1987 | Underhill's "Testing Spoken English" |
1987 | Fanselow's "Breaking Rules" |
1987 | Brown's "Principles of Language Learning and Teaching" 2nd edition |
1987 | ELT Documents 126 |
1987 | Hirsch's "Cultural Literacy" |
1988 | UCLES takes over RSA |
1988 | The Kingman Report |
1988 | Textbooks for Africa project announced |
1988 | Nunan's 'The Learner Centred Curriculum' |
1988 | First year of GCSE |
1988 | Kingman Report submitted |
1989 | The Cox Report |
1989 | IATEFL ELT Management Newsletter started |
1989 | Richards is Head of Department of English, City University, Hong Kong |
1990 | Widdowson's 'Aspects of Language Teaching' |
1990 | Prabhu's 'There is no best method - Why?' |
1990 | Nation's 'Teaching and learning vocabulary' |
1990 | Richard & Nunan's "Second Language Teacher Education" |
1990 | World Conference on Education for All |
1991 | Underhill's "Focus on Studying in Britain" |
1992 | Al-Ajmi's study of dictionary use |
1992 | Phillipson's 'Linguistic Imperialism' |
1992 | Pang's "Lesson Planning" |
1992 | Stern's "Issues and Options in Language Teaching" |
1992 | Alston Hall seminar |
1992 | Namibia's English by radio project |
1992 | Dunford Seminar held in Alston Hall, Lancs |
1992 | UK polytechnics reclassified as universities |
1993 | Lewis's "The Lexical Approach" |
1993 | Supplemental Charter for BC |
1993 | 'Oxford Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs' |
1993 | 16th Dunford Seminar on distance education |
1993 | 2nd broadcast of Namibia's English by radio project |
1994 | Spratt's "English for the Teacher" |
1994 | Holliday's "Appropriate Methodology and Social Context" |
1994 | Pennycock's "The Cultural politics of English as an International Language" |
1995 | BC's English 2000 project |
1995 | Nunan's coursebook 'Atlas' |
1995 | 'Cambridge International Dictionary of English' |
1995 | "International Encyclopedia of Teaching and Teacher Education" |
1995 | McCarthy & Carter's "Spoken grammar: what is it and how can we teach it?" |
1996 | Willis, J. & Willis, D's 'Challenge and Change in Language Teaching' |
1996 | Oakland recognises Ebonics as primary dialect |
1997 | Lewis's 'Implementing the Lexical Approach' |
1997 | "Development of ELT: the Dunford Seminars 1978-1993" |
1997 | Swales' "English as Tyrannosaurus rex" |
1998 | 'The American Heritage English as a Second Language Dictionary' published |
1998 | Richards' "Beyond Training" |
2000 | Schmitt's ' Vocabulary in language teaching' |
2000 | Read's ' Assessing vocabulary' |
2001 | Nation's 'Learning vocabulary in another language' |
2001 | 2nd editiond of 'Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching' |
2001 | CEFR published |
2001 | Seidlhofer's "A description of English as a Lingua Franca" |
2002 | 'Macmillan English Dictionary for Advanced Learners' |
2002 | Richards and Renandya's 'Methodology in Language Teaching: An Anthology of Current Practice' |
2003 | CfBT-funded project on the use of IWBs |
2004 | 2nd part of CfBT-funded project on the use of IWBs |
2005 | Lean et al's Simulations and Games survey |
2006 | Lean et al's "Simulations and Games" article |
2006 | Smith & Higgins' "Opening classroom interaction" |
2006 | Godley et al's article "Preparing Teachers for Dialectally Diverse Classrooms" |
2006 | AERA Annual Meeting |
2007 | Parkinson's "I Before E" |
2009 | "Support for Spelling" |