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1. www.up.ac.za › research-matters › newsExploring the early origins of language - University of Pretoria

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   Sep 1, 2015 · Continuity theory states that language had to evolve gradually over millions of years, starting amongst the earliest ancestors of humans, with different features developing at different stages, leading to language as we know it today.

2. www.tandfonline.com › doi › fullThe History of Teaching English as a Foreign Language, from a ...

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   Sep 17, 2014 · After the First World War, the centre of gravity for the development of progressive thinking on the teaching of English as a foreign language shifted from Europe and the USA to a remarkable triumvirate of expatriate language teaching theorists working in Asia: Michael West in Bengal, Lawrence Faucett in China, and — especially — Harold E ...

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   Introduction. The origins of Southern American English can be found on the islands off the shore of the Netherlands and in northern Germany and southern Denmark (where English speakers dwelled before they crossed the channel to invade the British Isles) or, to go back a bit further, on grassy plains somewhere in mid Eurasia (where the Proto ...

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   Mar 1, 2013 · 1. Was language given to humans by God or did it emerge by Darwinian evolution? 2. From a phylogenetic perspective, did language emerge abruptly or gradually?

5. www.oxfordreference.com › display › 10Chronology of English - Oxford Reference

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   Oct 21, 2024 · A selection of dates associated with the history and spread of the English language from Roman times to 1998. 55 bc Roman military expedition to Britain by Julius Caesar.

6. read.dukeupress.edu › pads › articleTHE HISTORY OF AMERICAN ENGLISH - Duke University Press

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   Dec 1, 2003 · Old English and New: Studies in Language and Linguistics in Honor of Frederic G. Cassidy

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   When did the English language become a language?

   • A selection of dates associated with the history and spread of the English language from Roman times to 1998. Roman military expedition to Britain by Julius Caesar. Roman invasion under the emperor Claudius, beginning 400 years of control over much of the island.

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   How did English become a language in the early 21st century?

   • Access to the full content requires a The status of English in the early 21st century makes it hard to imagine that the language started out as an assortment of North Sea Germanic dialects spoken in parts of England only by immigrants from the continent.

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   What is the history of English language teaching?

   • Since the publication of Howatt (Citation 1984) thirty years ago there has only been a limited amount of original research into the history of English language teaching for speakers of other languages. This contrasts strongly with work in relation to French, which has burgeoned over the last twenty-five years (see Besse, this issue).

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   How did language evolve?

   • Continuity theory states that language had to evolve gradually over millions of years, starting amongst the earliest ancestors of humans, with different features developing at different stages, leading to language as we know it today. This would imply that language has been developing in humans through all the phases of our evolution.

   Exploring the early origins of language - University of Pretoria

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   Who invented English language?

   • This innovation is normally credited to J. V. Meidinger, a German teacher of French, who introduced it in his Praktische französische Grammatik in 1783. Ten years later a similar course appeared for English, written by J. C. Fick and called Praktische englische Sprachlehre (1793).

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   When did 'communicative teaching' start?

   • From around 1970 some of the ideas, aims, and procedures which had dominated English language teaching for the preceding fifty or so years began to change once more, and gradually the label ‘communicative’ began to be applied.

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   The status of English in the early 21st century makes it hard to imagine that the language started out as an assortment of North Sea Germanic dialects spoken in parts of England only by immigrants from the continent.