APPROACHES AND METHODS IN LANGUAGE TEACHING 2ND EDITION

This new edition surveys the major approaches and methods in languageteaching. This new edition is an extensive revision of the firstedition of this successful text. Like the first edition, it surveysthe major approaches and methods in language teaching, such as grammar translation, audiolingualism, communicative language teaching, andthe natural approach. This edition includes new chapters on topicssuch as whole language, multiple intelligences, neurolinguisticprogramming, competency-based language teaching, cooperative languagelearning, content-based instruction, task-based language teaching, and the Post-Methods Era. Teachers and teachers-in-training will discover that this second edition is a comprehensive survey and analysis ofthe major and minor teaching methods used around the world.