Development of English Language Teaching Methods (original) (raw)

This paper aims at presenting the development of English Language Teaching (ELT) through the course of history. The process has undergone transitional phases from Grammar Translation Method (GTM) to the emergence of Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) in 1980s. All of the current and classical pedagogical practices followed in the field of English Language Teaching (ELT) were somewhat useful in learning English as a Second or Foreign Language (S/FL). There have been rigorous research studies on determining the sociocultural and psychological aspects of acquiring language through structural grammar, audio-lingual, meaning based, and context oriented approaches (Charlie, 2013).