Approaches and methods in language teaching

When liguists and language specialists sought to improve the quality of language teaching in the late nineteenth century , they often did so by referring to general principles and theories concerning how languages are learned , how knowledge of language is represented and organised in memory., or how language itself is structured. Approach: Approaches refers to theories about the nature of language and language learning that serves as the source of practices and principles in language teaching. we will examine the linguistic and psycholinguistics aspects of approach in turn. Theory of language at least three different theoretical views of language and the nature of language proficiency explicitly or implicitly inform current approaches and methods in language teaching. " interaction " has been central to theories of second language learning and pedagogy since the 1980 s. Rivers (1987) defined the interactive perspective in language education: students achieve facility in using a language when their attention is focused on conveying and receiving authemtic messages ( that is messages that contain information of interest to both speaker and listener in a situation of importance to both) This Interaction". Design : In order for an approach to lead to a method , it is necessary to develop a design for an instructional system. Objectives : Different theories of language and language learning influence the focus of a method , they determine what a method sets out achieve. Thank you