A few years ago, when I first learned of these resources, I got really excited. Latin-French-German example of Orbis Pictusįor those interested in Ancient Greek, there were at least two different Greek-Latin versions of this work that were published in the 1800s: Martial Span’s Orbis Pictus Graeco-Latinus, from 1820, and Leopoldo Joanni Scherschnik’s Graeco Latinus Usui Studiosae, from 1802. His work went through many permutations while Comenius was alive, and continued to be used in various forms for a good two centuries after he died. Comenius arranged the work to teach vocabulary in groups of related concepts, which we would now call learning vocabulary by semantic domains.
It was, apparently, the first children’s book to systematically use illustrations like this for learning. He developed an influential textbook, Orbis Pictus (pictured below), that utilized pictures of familiar objects and parallel columns of the target language and the speaker’s native language as a way to teach the new language, especially vocabulary. One of his far-reaching achievements was the effort to teach languages through the vernacular language of the learner. John Amos Comenius, 1592-1670, was, among other things, an educational reformer and visionary.
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