Focus on Teaching Method

First teaching book used phrase-book format .

• grammar–translation method: the traditional form of language teaching, with vocabulary lists and sets of grammar rules 

Typical parts:

1. academic subject

2. grammar rules

3. memorization

4. vocabulary lists

5. written language

• audiolingual method: a mid-twentieth-century approach to language teaching, with repetitive drills used to develop fluent spoken language as a set of habits 

1. language is a set of habit

2. practicing oral drills

• communicative approaches: approaches to language teaching that are based on learning through using language rather than learning about language 

=> Functions of language ( what ist is used for ) are emphasized rather than the correct forms of the language