Smith, Richard  <br/><br/>
‘Scientific’ Language Teaching   (Journal Article) 

 - Chennai   : English Language Teachers' Association of India  , 2021 
 - 21-23p. 
 - Journal of English Language Teaching   , Volume 63 No. 5 : September - October 2021 .
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<br/><br/> Abstract: A  recent  blog-post  by  Scott  Thornbury  on substitution tables (Thornbury 2017), which touches  on  contributions  by Harold  Palmer (1877–1949) to their theorization and development, reminded me that there is still just  about  time  this  year  to  celebrate  the centenary  of  Palmer ’s  ‘classic’  (1917)work, The Scientific Study  and Teaching of Languages. This  book  can  be  seen  to  have heralded  what  Tony  Howatt  and  I  have termed  a ‘Scientific  Period’  of  language teaching  discourse,  a  period  of  at  least  50years  during  which   language  teaching theorists tended to relate their proposals quite strongly to background scientific research ofvarious kinds (Howatt and Smith 2014). 
<br/><br/><label>ISSN: </label>0973-5208 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Scientific Language Teaching