Includes bibliographical references and index.

"This third edition of Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching is ane extensive revision of the popular and accessible text. Like previous editions, this book surveys the major approaches and methods in language teaching such as Grammar Translation, Audiolingualism, Communicative Language Teaching, and the Natural Approach. It examines each approach and method in terms of its theory of language and language learning, goals, syllabus, teaching activities, teacher and learner roles, materials, and classroom techniques.

In addition, this third edition includes content on the teaching and learning environment, with chapters on learners and methods, teachers and methods, plus approaches, methods and the curriculum. It also includes chapters on:

Content-based Instruction and CLIL
Text-based Teaching
Total Physical Response

Teachers and teachers-in-training will discover that this third edition is a comprehensive survey and analysis of teaching methods used around the world. The book seeks not only to clarify the assumptions behind these methods and their similarities and differences, but also to help teachers explore their own beliefs and practices in language teaching." (Book Cover)

CONTENTS:

Introduction to the third edition

I Major trends in twentieth-century language teaching
1. A brief history of early developments in language teaching
2. The nature of approaches and methods in language teaching
3. The Oral Approach and Situational Language Teaching
4. The Audiolingual Method

II Current approaches and methods
5. Communicative Language Teaching
6. Content-Based Instruction and Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL)
7. Whole Language
8. Competency-Based Language Teaching, standards, and the Common European Framework of Reference
9. Task-Based Language Teaching
10. Text-Based Instruction
11. The Lexical Approach
12. Multiple Intelligences
13. Cooperative Language Learning

III Alternative twentieth-century approaches and methods
14. The Natural Approach
15. Total Physical Response
16. The Silent Way
17. Community Language Learning
18. Suggestopedia

IV The teaching and learning environment 19. Learners, approaches, and methods
20. Teachers, approaches, and methods
21. Approaches, methods, and the curriculum
22. Postscript

Appendix: Comparison of approaches and methods