ESL THEORY AND THE FRIES LEGACY

Page No.: 
171
Writer(s): 
Joan Morley, Betty Wallace Robinett, Larry Selinker, and Devon Woods

With Director Charles C. Fries as its guiding force, in 1941 the English Language Institute was founded at the University of Michigan. The charge to the ELI was two-fold, to conduct research in teaching English as a foreign language and to prepare and test new materials for the teaching of English.

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