The Storyline Approach was first developed by Steve Bell, Sallie Harkness and Fred Rendell at Jordanhill College of Education in Glasgow, Scotland in the 1960s as a method for the teaching of environmental studies. It came about as a result of recommendations that teachers adopt a more integrated approach to the curriculum which had, up until then, been divided into many small segments and proposed a more child centred approach to learning, with less reliance on the use of inappropriate textbooks. Up until now it has almost exclusively been applied in subjects where the mother tongue is used. It has recently developed into Creative Dialogues, a Comenius Project, the aim of which is to give the opportunity to foreign language teachers and teacher students to create a trans-national dialogue using the Storyline Approach as a learning method for foreign languages that could contribute to solving the transition problem for pupils going up from English learning at primary school to English learning at secondary school.