During the 19th Century there was a great deal of prejudice against Modern Languages and English especially when they lost their prestigious status when schools such as Eton and Harrow opted out of teaching them. Further bias was felt when it was realised through the Cambridge Syndicate Report of 1868 that some of the best students of Modern Languages and English where in fact girls. At this time the spoken language was not deemed necessary and pressure was put and according to Howatt (2000) accuracy was elevated to the status of a moral imperative.
As transport links between countries improved the demand for a common lingua franca increased and it was soon realised that a more practical competence of English was required, People travelling in Europe or to the United States need to be able to communicate verbally which previously no emphasis had been given to. The growth of industry through out Europe meant that language learners where no longer confined to Grammar Schools and as such could not learn a language through the traditional methods. It was realised that a new approach was needed and the Reform Movement set about to change things.
Linguists also became interested in the best way to teach foreign languages and ideas were debated in books and leaflets in 1899 Henry Sweet in his book The Practical Study of Languages laid out some principles for the development of a teaching method, these included :.
1. Careful selection of what is to be taught;.
2. Imposing limits on what is to be taught;.
3. Arranging what is to be taught in terms of the four skills of listening,.
Speaking, reading, and writing;.
4. Grading materials from simple to complex. .
It was the writings of linguists such as Sweet paralleled with the Reform Movements interest in developing a naturalistic approach to language learning based on first language acquisition that ultimately lead to the implementation of the Direct Method.
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