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In the Middle Age, the use of Latin was particularly spoken in the church, administration, and law.
This trend was accelerated in the 15th century by the invention and spread of printing. -
By this age, the stage was set for a major educational shift from Latin and Vernacular languages but the opposite happened. Reinassance humanists that revitalized the study of classical languages and encouraged knowledge of the literature of ancient times. The renaissance grammar remained for two centuries, which consisted in studying the language in a deeper way.
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He spoke about English as the Frist part of the elementary. Reminding that English was the lanuage of our liberty and freedom.
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English appeared in the curriculum but it was accepted until the mid-19th century.
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Comenium talked about the central role of the mother tongue in the child's search of meaning in his book The Great Didactic published in Czech in 1630.
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The Direct or Natural method was used in the language teaching.
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Around 1696, Joseph Arckin pointed out the importance of using the mother tongue as the medium of instruction in educational teaching,
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Throughout the 18th century, the Vernacular Movement gathered support but progress was slow.
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In Europe the teaching was focused on Latin, Greek, and Hebrew. They thought that the best age for them to learn was from the age of 8 to 14.
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Elementary Education for all finally came in the late 19th century but did not include the teaching of foreign languages.
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Foreign languages are peripheral skills which can be acquired as and when they needed.