Part 1. MAJOR TRENDS IN TWENTIETH- CENTURY LANGUAGE TEACHING

Chapter 1. A brief history of language teaching

Chapter 2. The nature of approaches and methods in language teaching

Chapter 3. The Oral Approach and Situational Language Teaching

Chapter 4. The Audiolingual Method

Part 2. ALTERNATIVE APPROACHES AND METHODS

Chapter 5. Total Physical Response

Chapter 6. The Silent Way

Chapter 7. Community Language Learning

Chapter 8. Suggestopedia

Chapter 9. Whole Language

Chapter 10. Multiple Intelligences

Chapter 11. Neurolinguistic Programming

Chapter 12. The lexical approach

Chapter 13. Competency-Based Language Teaching

Part 3. CURRENT COMMUNICATIVE APPROACHES

Chapter 14. Communicative Language Teaching

Chapter 15. The Natural Approach

Chapter 16. Cooperative Language Learning

Chapter 17. Content-Based Instruction

Chapter 18. Task-Based Language Teaching

Chapter 19. The post-methods era