English language teaching has a long history both in and outside China. Different teaching approaches and methods have emerged over time and many are still contributing to today's classroom practice. Can you list some English teaching methods?

教师解析

The history of foreign language teaching has witnessed the emergence of different approaches and methods over different periods of time. The major approaches, with the relevant dates indicated in brackets, are: the Grammar-Translation Method (1840s to 1940s), the Direct Method (1860s to 1920s), the Situational Approach (1930s to 1960s), the Audiolingual Method (1940s to 1960s), the Humanistic Approach (1970s to 1980s), and the Communicative Approach (1970s to date) (Richards & Rodgers, 2001). These approaches and methods emerged in different contexts as solutions to particular language teaching problems and as responses to beliefs about language learning and use.