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1500
Revival of history
The stage was set for what might have been a major educational shift away from Latin and towards the vernacular languages, but the opposite happened. There was a revival of interest in the history and culture of the ancient world led by scholars like Erasmus, Vive and other Renaissance humanist wich revitalised the study of the classical languages and encouraged a deeper knowledge of the literature of antiquity . -
1582
First Part of the Elementarie
One of the earliest champions of the vernacular in England was a teacher in Elizabethan London called Richard Mulcaster who spoke up eloquently his audience that English was the language of our liberty and freedom. -
First German School
In Europe Wolggang Ratke opened the first German mother tongue schol at Koethen in Saxony. -
Joshua Poole
He said that when it comes to the construing of a Latin author he shall from the signification of his words in construing be in some good measure able to tell distinctly what part of speech every word is. -
Joshep Aickin
He stressed the importance of the mother tongue as the medium of instruction throughout the education system. -
In Europe
Formal education in Europe consisted almost exclusively of teaching foreinges languages, Latin mostly but also some Greek and Hebrew to ypung boys between the ages of eight and 14. -
Lambert and Heness
Lambert and Heness founded what became known un true Rousseasu style as the natural method of language teaching, this was the fore-runner of the better known difect method associated initially with the schools of Berlitz in Rhode Island -
Board Education
The traditionalist from private schools wanted to continue the early-starts practice of teaching foreign languages to eight years old but the reformers from the public sector argued for a late-start policy reserving languages for the secondary schools only. -
FLES
A psychologist called William Penfield appeared to answer a call in appeared which supported the view that pre-adolescent children were particularly well suitable to the acquisition of foreign languages since their responses were still flexible enough to cope with the demands of new speech habits.
This helped to launch s series of initiatives in American Elementary schools known as FLES. Continued until mid 60s. -
NFER
In Britain, An inicitive of teaching french was carried by a group of native-speaking teachers and later a National Fundation for Rducational Research was enlisted to evaluate and assess the project.