Events for the tag:
1584 | First British settlement in North America at Roanoke |
1607 | Establishment of first permanent British colony in North America at Jamestown, Virginia. |
1619 | African slaves brought to Jamestown |
1620 | 'Pilgrim Fathers' arrive at Cape Cod |
1758 | Life of Webster |
1768 | Franklin devises his 'A Scheme for a New Alphabet' |
1774 | Proposal for "American Society of Language" made in Royal American Magazine |
1780 | Adams proposes an American Academy. |
1783 | Webster publishes 1st book of "A Grammatical Institute of the English Language". |
1784 | Webster publishes 2nd book of "A Grammatical Institute of the English Language" |
1785 | Webster publishes 3rd book of "A Grammatical Institute of the English Language". |
1785 | Webster's "Plan of policy" |
1787 | Webster's 1st book of 'A Grammatical Institute' renamed 'An American Spelling Book' |
1788 | Philological Society founded in New York |
1789 | Webster's 'An Essay' published |
1789 | Webster's 'Dissertations' published |
1790 | Webster's 'A Collection' published |
1802 | Phrase 'American language' used in Congress |
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 | American Academy ofLanguage and Belles Lettres founded in New York |
1828 | Webster publishes "An American Dictionary of the English Language". |
1832 | Ticknor's 'Lecture on the Best Method of Teaching the Living Languages' |
1836 | First edition of McGuffey Readers |
1848 | Bartlett's 'Dictionary of Americanisms' |
1852 | National Typographic Union founded |
1859 | George Matsell's "Vocabulum" |
1861 | Government Printing Office founded |
1864 | Merriam-Webster's 'A Dictionary of the English Language' |
1867 | Marcel's "Study of Languages" |
1869 | Sauveur and Heness open their first school in New Haven, Connecticut |
1874 | Sauveur's 'An Introduction to the Teaching of Living Languages' published |
1876 | Spelling Reform Association formed |
1878 | Berlitz opens his first school in Rhode Island |
1883 | American Philological Association recommends list of spelling reforms |
1883 | Modern Language Association of America founded |
1885 | Passy's 'L'Instruction primaire aux Etats-Unis' |
1887 | Life of Bloomfield |
1889 | American Dialect Society formed |
1890 | Dropping of final 'h' in -burgh place names in US |
1890 | Board of Geographic Names established |
1892 | Appointment of Committee of Twelve |
1894 | Dewey moves to University of Chicago |
1900 | College Entrance Examination Board set up |
1900 | 'Report of the Committee of Twelve' published |
1902 | ICS language courses issued. |
1904 | Thorndike's 'Mental and Social Measurements' |
1906 | Simplified Spelling Board set up |
1910 | Thorndike's article 'Handwriting' |
1911 | Boas' 'Handbook of American Indian Languages' |
1912 | Thorndike's 'Education: a First Book' |
1913 | Maryland proposes aural/oral testing in Modern Languages |
1915 | Yerkes et al's 'A Point Scale for Measuring Mental Ability' |
1916 | Stanford-Binet scale published |
1917 | Council of the American Psychological Society endorse Yerken's psychological testing of army recruits |
1919 | Mencken publishes 'The American Language' |
1919 | Cleveland Plan |
1921 | Thorndike publishes 'The Teacher's Word Book' |
1921 | Sapir's 'Language' |
1924 | Modern Foreign Language Study |
1924 | Immigration Act passed |
1924 | Ohio State Uni. installs a 'phonetic laboratory' |
1925 | College Entrance Examination Board commisions construction of forerunner to SATs |
1926 | Bryn Mawr Test of Ability to Understand Spoken French project started |
1927 | American Association of Collegiate Registrars resolution on testing foreign students |
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 |
1929 | Coleman Report |
1929 | 2nd commission of CEEB presents outline for test of English ability of foreign students |
1930 | Symond's 'Foreign Language Prognosis Test' |
1931 | Simplified Spelling Board's publication 'Spelling' |
1931 | Sapir starts at Yale |
1931 | Fife's "A Summary of Reports" |
1932 | Thorndike's 'The Teacher's Word Book of 20,000 Words' published |
1933 | Bloomfield's 'Language' published |
1934 | Carnegie Conference held in New York |
1934 | Mead's"Mind, Self and Society" |
1934 | Coleman's "Experiments and Studies in Modern Language Teaching" |
1938 | 'A Dictionary of American English, on Historical Principles' published |
1938 | Sammartino's Language Achievement Scale |
1938 | Buros' 1st 'Mental Measurements Yearbook' |
1939 | 'Linguistic Atlas of the United States and Canada' published |
1939 | First English Language Institute in the USA set up at University of Michigan |
1940 | Machines used for first time in reporting results for CEEB exams |
1940 | Fries' 'American English Grammar' |
1941 | Buros' 2nd 'Mental Measurements Yearbook' |
1941 | Birth of Krashen |
1941 | Fries 'Intensive Course in English for Latin-American Students' |
1941 | Intensive Language Program of the American Council of Learned Societies |
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 | VOA launched |
1942 | Iowa Tests of Educational Development introduced |
1943 | American Army's ASTP courses run |
1944 | Thorndike and Lorge's 'The Teacher's Word Book of 30,000 Words' published |
1944 | Agard et al's survey of ASTP begins |
1945 | Fries' 'Teaching and Learning English as a Foreign Language' published |
1946 | Fries & Yao Shen's 'Intensive Course in English for Chinese Students' |
1947 | American College Dictionary first published |
1947 | Closed circuit TV used in language courses at Creighton Uni, Nebraska. |
1948 | ETS established |
1948 | Journal of Applied Linguistics first published |
1949 | Kurath's 'Word Geography' published |
1949 | Kiddle's article in 'Language Learning' |
1949 | Buros' 3rd 'Mental Measurements Yearbook' |
1949 | Zipf's "Human Behavior and the Principle of Least Effort" |
1950 | American Council of Learned Societies commissioned to develop textbooks |
1951 | Mathews' 'A Dictionary of Americanisms, on Historical Principles' published |
1951 | First language course on commercial TV |
1952 | Fries's 'The Structure of English' published |
1952 | ACLS's 'Structural Notes and Corpus' |
1953 | "The Teaching of Foreign Languages in the Elementary School" |
1953 | Haugen's "The Norwegian Language in America" |
1953 | Role of Foreign Languages in American Schools conference |
1957 | Noam Chomsky publishes "Syntactic Structures". |
1957 | Skinner's 'Verbal Behavior' |
1957 | FSI used for mandatory testing of Foreign Service personnel |
1958 | National Defense Education Act passed |
1959 | Washington Conference on Teaching English Abroad |
1959 | "The Linguistic Reporter" newsletter started |
1959 | Chomsky's review of Skinner's 'Verbal Behaviour' |
1960 | Stack's 'The Language Laboratory' published |
1960 | PLATO project started at Uni of Illinois |
1960 | First conference on lexicography for the English-speaking world. |
1961 | 'Brown Corpus of American English' published |
1961 | Washington conference |
1961 | Webster's Third New International Dictionary published |
1961 | Scherer-Wertheimer experiment |
1961 | Reid's "An Exploratory Survey of Foreign Language Teaching by Television in the United States" |
1961 | MLA assessment of FL teaching in US high schools |
1962 | ETS selected to administer the TOEFL |
1962 | Barnhart's study of dictionary users |
1963 | Hayes' 'Language Laboratory Facilities' published |
1963 | Newmark becomes chairman of Linguistics Department at UC San Diego |
1963 | "Technical Guide for the Selection, Use, and Maintenance of Language Laboratory Facilities" |
1964 | TOEFL first sat |
1965 | Chomsky's 'Aspects of the Theory of Syntax' published |
1966 | Chomsky's address to the North East Conference |
1966 | Labov's 'The Social Stratification of English in New York City' |
1966 | Dartmouth Conference |
1967 | TESOL formed |
1968 | Bilingual Education Act |
1969 | 'American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language' |
1970 | Postovosky's dissertation on delaying oral production |
1971 | Stanford Conference on Individualising Foreign Language Instruction |
1973 | TOEFL Policy Council formed |
1976 | Flexner's "I Hear America Talking" |
1977 | Death of Valerian A. Postovsky |
1978 | Review of suggestopedia in Parade magazine |
1978 | President's Commission on Foreign Languages and International Studies |
1978 | Order requiring government orders to be written in plain English |
1979 | Trials of TSE sat |
1979 | Krashen lecture at Brigham Young Uni |
1981 | TSE first sat |
1981 | Plain English order revoked |
1983 | US English formed |
1983 | ALLP begins |
1984 | Greenbaum et al's study on dictionary users published |
1986 | TWE first sat |
1998 | 'The American Heritage English as a Second Language Dictionary' published |
1999 | US Supreme Court ruled against an Arizona law requiring public employees to speak only English on the job. |