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November 27, 2016

Donation of pamphlet of lectures by C.C. Fries and W. Freeman Twaddell, from Rob Lowe

Writing about web page http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/al/research/collections/elt_archive/halloffame/fries/

Many thanks to Rob Lowe for his recent donation to the Warwick ELT Archive of a rare item he obtained in Tokyo - Lectures by C.C. Fries and W.F. Twaddell, published in 1958 for the Englsh Language Exploratory Committee, Tokyo, by Kenkyusha. Charles Fries (19887-1967) was the principal founder of the 'Oral Approach' - a precursor of audiolingualism - which was diffused in Japanese schools from the mid-1950s to mid-1960s (see Lynn Earl Henrichsen's book Diffusion of Innovations in English Language Teaching: The ELEC Effort in Japan, 1956-1968).

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