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