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The revival of the study of the classical languages and encouraged a deeper knowledge of literature of antiquity.
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Elizabethan London called Richard Mulcaster who spoke up for the use of English in his First Part of the Elementary.
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First German mother tongue school at Koethen in Saxony. Sadly it failed due to a lack of sensible practical planning.
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Ratke's basic principle saying, "In everything, we should follow the order of Nature."
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Published in Czech, it stated that the mother tongue should be taught first and once the child reached ten years of age they were to be taught a foreign language.
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Expressed the importance of the mother tongue in school systems.
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Education should grow out of the child's experience of the mother tongue and foreign languages should be relegated to a subsidiary role.
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An essay containing advice on the modern system of education to replace the horrors of grammar schools.
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John Locke, the notion of a natural method of foreign language teaching mimetic of the universally effective processes of first language acquisition.
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English joins the school curriculum but rejected by grammar schools until reform was forced.
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Daniel Duncan's speaks up in public to address that learning dead languages is a joke and people should learn languages that can help people.
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Joseph Priestley and Robert Lowth share to school systems that English grammar will be difficult to include in the education system But not impossible.
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Lowth's Short Introduction to English Grammar was published along with Roussueau's Emile or Education both about teaching, learning, and childhood.
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Rousseau rejects Pestalozzian's empty verbalism.
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Formal education in Europe was almost exclusively for teaching foreign languages. Mainly Latin, Greek, and Hebrew at that time.
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Direct method associated with the schools of Berlitz, the first of which was opened in nearby Rhode Island.
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Basic elementary education was for all throughout Europe in the late 1900s.
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The Board of Education looks into the whole question of modern studies including the future of foreign languages.
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Supported starting foreign language teaching at a young age.
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French start to teach foreign language with foreign teacher of that language.