History of Language Teaching

By Renee De La Rosa Yañez
  • Period: 1500 to

    Sixteenth Century

    People used the Medieval Latin as language.
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    Seventeenth Century

    French as the language of diplomacy in Europe.
    Jan Amos Comenius - most famous language methodologist of 17th Century (1592-1670).
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    Eighteenth Century

    Karl Julius Ploetz (1819 - 1881) He es credited with the idea of arranging historic data by dates, geographic location, and other factors. As later used in the English language, Encyclopedia of World History.
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    Early Nineteenth Century XIX

    Grammar translation method - Started to be known as the classical method.
    this method teaches a foreign language in a deductive way.
    International Phonetic Alphabet
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    Mid Nineteenth Century

    Reform movement.
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    Late Nineteenth Century XIX

    Direct method - was proposed by Charles Berlitz in the last two decades of the 19th century.
    Only everyday vocabulary and sentences were taught.
    Linguists empazised that speech was more important.
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    1920 - 1930

    The coleman report in 1929 recommended a reading based approach to foreign language teaching for use in American schools and colleges.
    Reading method.
    By the 1920s, use of the Direct Method in non-commercial schools in Europe had consquently declined.
    A study begun in 1923, on the state of foreign language teaching in schools.
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    1950 - 1960

    Audio lingual method
    L. Sauveur (1826 to 1907) opened a language school in Boston in late 1860's. His method soon became referred to as the Natural Method
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    1980 - 1990

    Neuro linguistic programming.
    multiple intelligence.
    Whole language approach.
    Lexical approach: ability to comprehend and produce lexical phrases as unanalyzed wholes.
    Content-Based method.
    International phonetic Association was founded in 1886