1Jan 1920Language pedagogy drew a version of structuralisms developed by the British linguistic, Palmer. 2Feb 1924BehaviorismWatsonThorndike3Mar 1940Language pedagogyIt's subsequently added on by Fries and his Michigan colleagues in the 1940s4Apr 1950Linguistics and psychology Theorizing about Second Language Learning was still very much adjunct to the practical business of language teaching5May 1957Noam ChomskyHis shift had been initiated by the publication in 1957 of Syntactic Structures, the first of many influencial books by Noam Chomsky 6Skinner writesThe clash of views about the way in wich we learn language 3Mar 1960Chomsky reviewand Chomsky's review of Skinner's book published in 1959, wich was a fierce critique 8Aug 1966Skinner The field of psychology, the pre-eminent role for the environment wich was argued by Skinner- in shaping the child's learning and behaviour was losing 9Sep 1972The term interlanguageWas coined by Selinker, to refer to the language produced by the learners10Oct 1987Chomsky's termIntroduced the term "Plato's problem"The recent history of second language learning research Language pedagogy drew a version of structuralisms developed by the British linguistic, Palmer. BehaviorismWatsonThorndikeLanguage pedagogyIt's subsequently added on by Fries and his Michigan colleagues in the 1940sLinguistics and psychology Theorizing about Second Language Learning was still very much adjunct to the practical business of language teachingNoam ChomskyHis shift had been initiated by the publication in 1957 of Syntactic Structures, the first of many influencial books by Noam Chomsky Skinner writesThe clash of views about the way in wich we learn language Chomsky reviewand Chomsky's review of Skinner's book published in 1959, wich was a fierce critique Skinner The field of psychology, the pre-eminent role for the environment wich was argued by Skinner- in shaping the child's learning and behaviour was losing The term interlanguageWas coined by Selinker, to refer to the language produced by the learnersChomsky's termIntroduced the term "Plato's problem"