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The 1960s saw many curriculum and textbook revision projects, and in Britain one of the most ambitious was associated with the Nuffield Foundation. Their aim was to make foreign languages available in schools on a non-selective basis, and they produced a French course for British primary schools. En Avant uses a situational syllabus together with aspects of audiovisualism. Courses for other languages followed, and overall the project brought a greater degree of professionalism to British foreign language teaching. Associated with this work is the experiment on primary French teaching reported by Burstall and others (1974). (See teaching young learners .) ( 1974 ). Primary French in the Balance . Slough : National Foundation for Educational Research . * ( 1984 ). A History of English Language Teaching . Oxford : Oxford University Press . ( 1969 ). The Nuffield foreign languages teaching materials project . In ), Languages and the Young School Child . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 148 – 61 . ... log in or subscribe to read full text