Content

Introduction
1. Comparative Teaching Methodologies
1.1 Grammar Translation Method
1.2 Direct Method
1.3 Audio-Lingual Method
1.4 Silent Way
1.5 Total Physical Response (TPR) Community Language Learning (CLL)
1.6 Suggestopedia (Suggestology)
1.7 Communicative Approach
1.8 Natural Approach
1.9 Emotional-semantic method
2. Theoretical aspect of effective methods of teaching
2.1 The bases of teaching a foreign language
2.2 Effective ways and techniques of teaching a foreign language
2.2.1 Constructivist teaching strategies
2.2.2 Communicative Teaching Method
2.2.3 Using project method in teaching a foreign language
2.2.4 The method of debates
2.2.5 Games
2.2.6 Role plays as a method of teaching
2.3 Methodological principles of modern methods of teaching
2.4 Practical aspect of ways of teaching
3. Comparative characteristics of modern techniques of teaching English
3.1 Features of techniques
3.1.1 Communicative method
3.1.2 Project methodology
3.1.3 Intensive method
3.1.4 Activity Based method
3.2 Similarities of methods
3.3 Positive and negative aspects of techniques
Conclusion
Bibliography
Appendix

Introduction

Language teaching came into its own as a profession in the last century. Central to this process was the emergence of the concept of methods of language teaching. The method concept in language teaching—the notion of a systematic set of teaching practices based on a particular theory of language and language learning—is a powerful one, and the quest for better methods preoccupied teachers and applied linguists throughout the 20th century. Howatt (1984) documents the history of changes in language teaching throughout history, up through the Direct Method in the 20th century. One of the most lasting legacies of the Direct Method has been the notion of method itself.
Methodology in language teaching has been