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| 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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- Cowie, A. P. (1999). English Dictionaries for Foreign Learners: A History. Oxford: Oxford University Press [p.7]
- Howatt, A. P. R. (1984). A History of English Language Teaching. Oxford: Oxford University Press [p.255]
- Richards, Jack C. (1974) Word Lists: Problems and Prospects. RELC Journal 5/2 pp.69-84 [p.73]
- Howatt, A. P. R. (2004). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, online edn, [Accessed 0000-00-00]
- Phillipson, Robert (2009). Linguistic Imperialism Continued. Hyderabad: Orient BlackSwan [p.113]