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Period: 1500 to
Sixteenth Century
People used the Medieval Latin as language. -
Period: to
Seventeenth Century
French as the language of diplomacy in Europe.
Jan Amos Comenius - most famous language methodologist of 17th Century (1592-1670). -
Period: to
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. -
Period: to
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 -
Period: to
Mid Nineteenth Century
Reform movement. -
Period: to
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. -
Period: to
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. -
Period: to
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 -
Period: to
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