Year: | 1900 | ||||
Short description: | 'Report of the Committee of Twelve' published | ||||
Medium description: | 'Report of the Committee of Twelve' by a Modern Language Association of America's committee. Makes mention of the Direct Method but suggest that the main focus of FL teaching was competent translation skills that would lead eventually to a good reading level. Suggests a 'compromise solution on the method controversy' (Stern, 1983) and described a set of Grammar-Translation activity suggestions that included: - teaching of grammar - translation of simple prose [Mackey (but only in bibliography), Krashen, and Hawkins give the year as 1901] [Stern doesn't make clear in what way this event is placed in 1900 as he gives a reference to a publication date of 1901 and says it was submitted to the MLA at a meeting in 1898] | ||||
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