The history of language

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300 BCE

Platon proposed that human beings possess knowledge intrinsically; Aristotle thought we came into this world completely blank.

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1080

Until almost the twelfth century, formal education in Western Europe took place in monasteries that offered instruction in liturgy and prayer.

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1167

(Bologna in 1088, Paris in 1150, and Oxford in 1167) The foundation of the earliest universities in the late eleventh and twelfth centuries.

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1400

On the Conduct and Education of Young People, 1400; A new program for learning. The humanists contended that second-language literacy skills alone were necessary but insufficient training for a citizen of the Renaissance world. Instead, the educated person would also be able to speak Latin fluently, confidently, and persuasively.

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1440

The fading utility of Latin for anything but the most scholarly pursuits would eventually be extinguished with the availability of vernacular translations of the Bible made possible by the invention of the printing press in 1440.

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1500

The influence of the Catholic Church on education reached its pinnacle with the system of education developed by the Jesuits.

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1524

Martin Luther (1483– 1547) proposed in 1524 that all children acquire basic literacy in order to read the Bible.

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1631

Comenius evolutionized the way of teaching languages, his most outstanding works were; The Janua Linguarum Reserata [The Gate of Tongues, Unlocked] of 1631, the Vestibulum [The Vestibule] of 1633, and perhaps most famous of all, the Orbis Sensualium Pictus [The World of Things in Pictures] of 1658.

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1653

Luther’s translation of the New Testament into German in 1522 and of the Old Testament in 1534; Tyndale’s translation into English in 1526, with the authorized King James version in 1611; Czech in 1568; Welsh in 1588; and the London Polyglot Bible in ten languages in 1653. By this time, the printing press had advanced to the point that, not only did students likely have individual copies of texts, even of the same edition.

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1886

Recognition of the foreign language. In the second half of the 19th century, educators recognized the need to speak as the main objective of learning a foreign language.

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1886

The International Phonetic Association arises, among its first goals it was proposed to develop the teaching of modern languages.

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1941

“The audiolingual method”, in the second world war the American army had the need to have people who spoke native languages, so the army and the American government commissioned American universities to develop methods so that soldiers could reach a level of proficiency at the conversational level.