<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>In this study, we attempt to approach the problem of foreign language teaching from the viewpoint of language pedagogy development in different historical periods: from the grammar translation method through the audio-lingual approaches and up to communicative and post-communicative methods. We have come today to reconsider the role and status of language teaching not only because globalization has produced an increase in the number of speakers of English all around the world but also due to the fact that the issue of localization (of language teaching methods and techniques) has also come to the fore. This meta-analytical article circumscribes a number of popular methods amongst which teachers can choose, and we also try to summarize the most important foreign language teaching methods that can be spotted in the era of what is presently called the post-method condition.</p></abstract>

In this study, we attempt to approach the problem of foreign language teaching from the viewpoint of language pedagogy development in different historical periods: from the grammar translation method through the audio-lingual approaches and up to communicative and post-communicative methods. We have come today to reconsider the role and status of language teaching not only because globalization has produced an increase in the number of speakers of English all around the world but also due to the fact that the issue of localization (of language teaching methods and techniques) has also come to the fore. This meta-analytical article circumscribes a number of popular methods amongst which teachers can choose, and we also try to summarize the most important foreign language teaching methods that can be spotted in the era of what is presently called the post-method condition.

<italic>In between</italic> Language Teaching Methods: Do We Need (to Know About) Methods at All?

Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania

Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Philologica

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 Language Teaching Methods: Do We Need (to Know About) Methods at All?

In this study, we attempt to approach the problem of foreign language teaching from the viewpoint of language pedagogy development in different historical...

In between Language Teaching Methods: Do We Need (to Know About) Methods at All?

Published Online: Jan 21, 2020

Page range: 119 - 139

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ausp-2019-0030

Keywords
language teaching methods, methodology, history of methods, choice between methods, communicative and post-communicative language teaching

© 2019 Imola Katalin Nagy, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

In between Language Teaching Methods: Do We Need (to Know About) Methods at All?

Published Online: Jan 21, 2020

Page range: 119 - 139

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ausp-2019-0030

Keywordslanguage teaching methods, methodology, history of methods, choice between methods, communicative and post-communicative language teaching

© 2019 Imola Katalin Nagy, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
language teaching methods, methodology, history of methods, choice between methods, communicative and post-communicative language teaching