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1400
from 15th century
Education in Europe consisted almost exclusively of the teaching of foreign languages. -
1582
First part of the elementarie
Richard Mulcaster speaks eloquently for the use of english. -
Wolfgang Ratke
Opened the first German mother tongue school at Koethen in Saxony. -
Methodus
Ratke's basic principle expresed in this title -
Great Didactic
"First of all the mother tongue must be learned" says this title originally published in Czech -
Towards the end of the century...
John Locke publishes "Some thoughts concerning education" -
Lowth
Publishes "Short introduction to English grammar" -
19th century
The Renaissance schools remained unchallenged for nearly tow centuries. It was the period with the most important development of English. -
School of Berlitz
The first one was opened nearby Rhode Island -
William Penfield
Appears to answer the view that pre-adolescent children were particularly well-suited to the acquisition of foreign languages -
Experiment to teach French
on 1961-1962 a small experiment to teach French to elementary students was published using a native-speaker leading the classes