¨Before The nineteenth Century
¨After The nineteenth Century
¨The New Era
¨ The
beginning of foreign language teaching might not be separated from the Roman
Empire when the Romans studied Greek as their second language.
¨ They
invited Greek tutors or had Greek-speaking servants in the household
¨ The
teaching of Latin began with expansion of the Roman Empire. As the empire
expanded, people began to learn Latin until that language became the
international language of the Western World, which was the language of church
and state at that time.
¨ Soon, the language was widely used and became the only medium of instruction in
the schools. This made people learn the language as a subject and the methods
were mostly limited to Latin Grammar for clerics to speak, read, and write in
their second language, the language in which nearly all academic learning was
done.
Jan Comenius (1931), the one who
first attempted to teach grammar and
teach language through pictures.
The emphasis of language teaching
changed by the time. Up to the last quarter of the eighteenth century the usual
practice in schools was to translate from the second language into the first.
Translation way already took the position of teaching grammar.
With the coming of the Grammar
translation Method, the teaching of
Latin grammar had become an end in itself. The teaching of Latin grammar had
become formalized in sort of intelectual exercises.
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