Approaches and methods in language teaching

Contents
Pt. I Major language trends in twentieth-century language teaching 1
1 A brief history of language teaching 3
2 The nature of approaches and methods in language teaching 18
3 The Oral Approach and Situational Language Teaching 36
4 The Audiolingual Method 50
Pt. II Alternative approaches and methods 71
5 Total Physical Response 73
6 The Silent Way 81
7 Community Language Learning 90
8 Suggestopedia 100
9 Whole Language 108
10 Multiple Intelligences 115
11 Neurolinguistic Programming 125
12 The lexical approach 132
13 Competency-Based Language Teaching 141
Pt. III Current communicative approaches 151
14 Communicative Language Teaching 153
15 The Natural Approach 178
16 Cooperative Language Learning 192
17 Content-Based Instruction 204
18 Task-Based Language Teaching 223
19 The post-methods era 244
Includes bibliographical references and index.