Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching

by Jack C. Richards , Theodore S. Rodgers

• ISBN13: 9780521803656
• ISBN10: 0521803659
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780511450877
• Additional ISBN(s): 9780521008433
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-04-09
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Summary

This new edition surveys the major approaches and methods in language teaching.The paperback second edition is an extensive revision of the first edition of this successful text. Like the first edition, it surveys the major approaches and methods in language teaching, such as grammar translation, audiolingualism, communicative language teaching, and the natural approach. The text examines each approach and method in terms of its theory of language and language learning, goals, syllabus, teaching activities, teacher and learner roles, materials, and classroom techniques. In addition to the approaches and methods covered in the first edition, this edition includes new chapters on topics such as whole language, multiple intelligences, neurolinguistic programming, competency-based language teaching, cooperative language learning, 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 of the major and minor teaching methods used around the world. The book seeks not only to clarify the assumptions behind these methods and their similarities and differences, but also to help teachers explore their own beliefs and practices in language teaching.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Part I Major language trends in twentieth-century language teaching	1	(70)
A brief history of language teaching	3	(15)
The nature of approaches and methods in language teaching	18	(18)
The Oral Approach and Situational Language Teaching	36	(14)
The Audiolingual Method	50	(21)
Part II Alternative approaches and methods	71	(80)
Total Physical Response	73	(8)
The Silent Way	81	(9)
Community Language Learning	90	(10)
Suggestopedia	100	(8)
Whole Language	108	(7)
Multiple Intelligences	115	(10)
Neurolinguistic Programming	125	(7)
The lexical approach	132	(9)
Competency-Based Language Teaching	141	(10)
Part III Current communicative approaches	151	(106)
Communicative Language Teaching	153	(25)
The Natural Approach	178	(14)
Cooperative Language Learning	192	(12)
Content-Based Instruction	204	(19)
Task-Based Language Teaching	223	(21)
The post-methods era	244	(13)
Author index	257	(4)
Subject index	261