John Leslie Melville Trim (1924 - 19 January 2013), Director of the

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's Modern Languages projects from 1971 to 1997, was a key promoter of the

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. After graduating from

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(UCL) in 1949, he remained there lecturing before moving to

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as University Lecturer in

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in 1958. As well as setting up the Department of Linguistics at Cambridge in 1966, Trim was also president of the

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(BAAL) and vice-president of the

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(AILA). The Language Centre at

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named its independent learning centre, the John Trim Centre (JTC), after him.Independent Learning in the John Trim Centre
Retrieved 1 January 2013.

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