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Palmer, Harold. Edward.

Bio data:

Data	source
linguist and teacher; son of Edward Palmer (b. 1853), schoolmaster and newspaper proprietor, and his wife, Minnie, née Frostick (b. 1857); father started newspaper "Hythe Reporter" in 1890; withdrawn from primary school at 10 and home schooled for 3 years; spent 2 years at private secondary school and left aged 15	Howatt, A. P. R., 2004

Events:

Start	end	description
1877 March	1949	Life of Palmer
1899		Palmer takes over editorship of Hythe Reporter
1903		Palmer opens school in Verviers
1906		Palmer's "Méthode Palmer"
1907		Palmer begins correspondence with Jones
1910		Palmer's 1st article in "Le Maître Phonétique"
1912		Palmer and Jones meet
1914		Palmer returns to England from Belgium
1915		Palmer invited to give course of lectures on methodology.
1916		Palmer & Kinoshita's Japenese beginners' voacbulary
1916		Palmer joins staff at UCL
1917		Palmer publishes 'The Scientific Study and Teaching of Languages'
1921		Palmer publishes 'Principles of Language Study'
1921		Palmer's 'The Oral Method of Teaching Languages' published
1921		Sawayanagi visits London.
1922		Palmer's 'English Intonation, with Systematic Exercises'
1922		Palmer appointed Linguistic Adviser to the Japanese Ministry of Education
1922 February		Palmer leaves England for Japan
1923 May		Institute for Research in English Teaching set up
1923		Palmer's 'Sequence Series: Questions, Sequence Series: Answers' published
1924		Palmer publishes 'A Grammar of Spoken English'
1925		Palmer publishes 'English through Actions'
1925		Palmer's 'Systematic Exercises in Sentence Building'
1926		Palmer's article 'The noun complex'
1926		Palmer's "A Dictionary of English Pronunciation"
1927		Palmer's "The Five Speech-Learning Habits"
1929		Palmer's article 'What shall we call a word?'
1929		Palmer's article 'What is an idiom?'
1930		'First Interim Report on Vocabulary Selection' published
1931		Palmer invites Hornby to help with word list
1931	1932	Palmer's lecture tour
1932		Palmer's '600-word Vocabulary for Story Telling' published
1932		Palmer's 'Some Notes on Construction-Patterns'
1932		Palmer & Redman's 'This Language-learning Business'
1934 October		Carnegie Conference held in New York
1934		Palmer's 'Specimens of English Construction Patterns'
1934		Palmer's 'Essay on Lexicology'
1936		"Interim Report on Vocabulary Selection" published
1936		Palmer returns to UK
1937		Palmer and Hornby publish 'Thousand-Word English'
1938		Palmer publishes 'A Grammar of English Words'
1938		Palmer's "New Method Grammar"
1942		Palmer's 'New Method English Course for West Africa' published
1942		Death of Palmer's son
1944		Palmer's 'The International Course' published
1944		Palmer returns early from lecture tour in S. America
1949 November		Palmer dies
1965		"A Vocabulary and Reading test for Students of English as a Second Language"

Works authored:

(includes only sources used in the compilation of this database)

Palmer, Harold E & H Vere Redman (1969). This Language Learning Business. London: Oxford University Press

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