# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/harold-e-palmer
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:40:06.418Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/harold-e-palmer"
name: "Harold E. Palmer"
slug: "harold-e-palmer"
description: "Harold Edward Palmer, usually just Harold E. Palmer, was an English linguist, phonetician and pioneer in the field of teaching English as a second language. Especially he dedicated himself to the Oral Method, also known as the Oral Approach, the Situational Approach, or Situational Language Teaching (SLT). He stayed in Japan for 14 years and reformed its English education. He contributed to the development of the applied linguistics of the 20th century."
tagline: "English linguist and phonetician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Harold_E._Palmer.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1877-03-06"
deathDate: "1949-11-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.71
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.476962666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "هارولد ئی. پالمر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_E._Palmer"
    title: "Harold E. Palmer"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_E._Palmer"
    title: "Harold E. Palmer"
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  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%ED%95%B4%EB%9F%B4%EB%93%9C_E._%ED%8C%8C%EB%A8%B8"
    title: "해럴드 E. 파머"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://io.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_E._Palmer"
    title: "Harold E. Palmer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%8F%E3%83%AD%E3%83%AB%E3%83%89%E3%83%BBE%E3%83%BB%E3%83%91%E3%83%BC%E3%83%9E%E3%83%BC"
    title: "ハロルド・E・パーマー"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump