TOPIC 1. DIDACTIC EVOLUTION OF LANGUAGES.

CURRENT TENDENCIES IN THE

DIDACTIC OF ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE. COMMUNICATIVE APPROACH.

THE DIDACTIC EVOLUTION OF

The Grammar- The Reading
LANGUAGES TEACHING Translation Method
Method.
From the ancient time the necessity
The Direct Audio-lingual
to speak a foreign language
Method. Method
emerged:

- Ancient Times, the Egyptian &

Babylonian used to send bilingual

representatives for commercial pacts The silent

among different cultures. Berlitz APPROACHES 20TH C Way
19TH C
- Middle Ages, the Christian School
missionaries had to learn the & METHODS IN
languages of the people they wanted LANGUAGE
to convert.
TEACHING THE
- The Renaissance, Latin was studied

as the basis of higher education.

COMMUNICATIVE
LANGUAGE
Around the 16th century, French, BEHAVIOURISM
TEACHING
Italian, and English gained in APPROACH
importance as a result of political

changes in Europe. Task-Based

- Before the 19th C the most Learning 21ST C
common means of learning a INNATISM
language was by being in contact
Content and AUDIOLINGUALISM
with native speakers of that

language through traveling, trade,

Language
war...
Integrated
... learning Suggestopaedia
Communicative
Language Teaching