Teaching English to young learners: patterns of history By oigres18 1500 Spread of printing. Educational shift away from Latin. 1582 Richard Mulcaster. Champion of the Vernacular English claimed English as the language of freedom and liberty 1620 First German mother tongue school at Koethen in Saxing opened by Wolfgang Ratke 1630 Great didactic was published: the central role of mother tongue in the child's explanation 1646 Joshua Poole: Young children would learn Latin grammar better by learning English grammar first 1693 Teachers used dialogue forms for teaching English (Direct method) 1693 John Locke: young learners are better at pronouncing foreign languages 1693 John Locke elaborated an essay called "Some thoughts concerning education" containing modern system education to replace the horrors of grammar school 1761 Joseph Priestley: The propriety of introducing the English grammar into English schools cannot be disputed 1762 Lowth's short introduction to English grammar is published and stated the influential prescriptive grammar 1797 John Miller published ‘The Tutor or A New English and Bengalee Work’ considered as the first non-European ELT book. 1870 State elementary school did not follow prep- school that taught Latin and French 1878 Berlitz school was created. They used Direct method for teaching 1916 The board of education set up Stanley Leathes ideals Period: 1946 to 1970 Foreign languages were reserved for bright adolescents 1950 Large-scaled shifts of population resulted in substantial linguistic minorities 1953 Psychologist William Penfield stated pre-adolescents children are well-suited to the acquisition of foreign languages 1960 The absence of foreign languages of state education sector was questioned due to the teaching of French to primary school children 1961 Leeds: Native-speaking teachers publicised experiment to teach French to primary shool children