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1497
The Standard Grammar emerged
1497-1547
Under Henry VIII reign a new energy emerged in the European Education. which was inspired by humanists and cultural achievements, the Standard Grammar. -
1500
15th. Century
Vernacular languages began to take over functions and clear practical use of Latin skills mostly in church, also secular activities such as Administration and law . -
1500
Major educational shift
The stage was set for what might have been a major educational shift away from Latin and towards the vernacular languages. -
1500
Rivival of interest in history
A Revival of interest in the history and culture of the ancient lip by Scholars like Erasmus, Vives and other Renaissance humanists which revitalized the study of the classical language and encourage a deeper knowledge of the literature of antiquity. -
1582
The standardisation of the English spelling system.
1582- Richard Mulcaster “First part of the elementarie” he spoke for the use of English. English was the language of our liberty and freedom. His book sets a programme of the codification of the English language. he contributes to the standardisation of the English spelling system. -
First German school
Wolfgang Ratke opened the first German mother tongue school, at Koethen in Saxony, eventually failed through lack of practical planning. -
Ratke’s basic principle “Methodus”
Ratke’s basic principle “Methodus” was restated in different guises by educational innovators up to the present day: In everything we should follow the order of nature. -
"Great Didactic"
“Great Didactic” the great Comenious underlined the central role of the mother tongue in the child’s exploration of meaning. -
Teaching Grammar
Jeshua Poole point out that young children would learn Latin grammar better and more quickly if they learnt English grammar first. -
John Locke
John Locke “Some thoughts concerning education” contained a sensible advice on a modern system of education to replace the horrors of the grammar schools. -
Importance of the mother tongue language
Joseph Aickin stressed the importance of the mother tongue as the medium of instruction throughout the education system. -
“The learning of dead languages"
Acoording to Daniel Duncan “the learning of dead languages is a yoke that neither were nor our fore-fathers could ever bear when we were children. And I fancy the loathsomeness of that dry study comes for want of reasoning previously with them enough about the nature of words and their dependency on one another in their own mother tongue.” -
The priopriety od introducing grammar.
*Joseph Priestley manifestated that “the propriety of introducing the English grammar into English schools cannot be disputed.” *Robert Lowth, manifestated that “to enter at once upon science of grammar and the study of a foreign language is to encounter two difficulties together, each of which would be much lessened by being taken separately in its proper order.” -
Lowth's Short
The Lowth's Short Introduction to English Grammar published that the twenty century loves to hate. (the same year) In the other hand, one curious coincidence was Rousseau's Emile, or education the equally influential quasi-novel about teaching. -
Emile's Book
Emile's book is designed as a 'story' which describes the education of a boy of the same name and it is rich source of ideas which have since become the stock-in-trade of progressive education. -
18th century Vernacular language "second best"
Vernacular movement gradually gathered support, but progress was slow and it was always seen as “second best” to the traditional if increasingly moribund Latin grammar school tradition. -
Creation of Kindergarten
Pestalozzi’s disciple, Friedrich Froebel, creates an educational institution for very young children known as the “kindergarten”. -
Object lesson
(in the Mid 1860s)
Gottlieb Heness is inspired by the “object lesson” to teach German as a foreign language to the children of the staff at Yale University. After the success of that experiment, he and Lambert Sauveur open a school of languages in Boston, founding the known “Natural Method” of language teaching. -
Direct Mehod
Nearby Rhode Island, the first school of Berlitz is opened, which used the “Direct Method”. -
Emerge of the Direct Mehod
The emergence of direct methods and natural approaches Modified the methodology of the teaching-learning process, this lead the creation of activities in classroom that included foreign languages. -
The object lesson
Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi develops the “object lesson”, in which the starting point is a simple object that the children can explore by describing its various characteristics. -
Late’s XIX century
Was stated that foreign languages “were unsuited to the needs of elementary schoolers”. -
"Not desirable "
It was discussed that it “was not desirable to introduce modern languages into elementary schools” -
The Canadian programme
The Canadian programme was remarkable for the strength of commitment it revealed majority-language speakers to encourage the learning of minority language. -
Bilingual education programmes
Large-scale shifts of population have resulted in substantial linguistic minorities in countries where they did not exist before, and the expansion of bilingual education programmes in areas of the world like Britain -
William Penfield
William Penfield supported the view that pre-adolescent children were particularly well-suited to the acquisition of foreign languages. -
Early 1960s
The absence of foreign languages from most of the state education sector was seriously questioned. -
The Fles
The Mids 60s
The FLES (Foreign Languages in the Elementary School) programme continued until mid 60s with some success but new ideas failed to materialize. -
A asmall experimen.
A native french-speaking teacher aplyed a ta small experimen to teach French to primary school children.(FLES), this experiment ended up taking shape into the government and a number of primary schools started teaching French. -
Before 1970s
In Britain before the 70s Foreign languages were reserved for bright adolescents, the top 20% who had passed the entrance test to the grammar schools.