Year: | 1934, October | ||||
Short description: | Carnegie Conference held in New York | ||||
Medium description: | New York conference called by West and funded by a grant from the Carnegie Corporation to look at the issue of vocabulary selection in ELT. It was attended by American & British experts. The main outcome was the forming of a committee composed of West, Palmer, Faucett and Thorndike to produce guidelines for producing word-lists & an outline list. Phillipson (2009) states that one of the concerns of this and 1935 conference was to "counteract the influence of Basic English, which was seen as both educationally ill-conceived and contaminaed by an imperialist agenda" Howatt (2004) states that Plamer didn't participate until 1935. | ||||
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