Evolving Methodologies: A Review of Methods and Approaches in English Language Teaching

Evolving Methodologies: A Review of Methods and Approaches in English Language Teaching" by Radmila Suzie is an essential textbook for graduate and postgraduate students of Anglistics study programme at Singidunum University. It provides an overview of the evolution of methods and approaches in English language teaching, offering their thorough analysis and discussing their impact on the process of learning and teaching English as a foreign language. Being divided into three main parts, this textbook first describes major trends in twentieth-century language teaching, followed by the description of alternative approaches and methods which were popular in the last decades of the 20th century, while the third part deals with current communicative approaches with special focus on Task-Based and Content-Based Instructions. Within each chapter, an objective and comprehensive picture of a certain method is presented with an aim to provide language teachers and teacher trainees with commonly and less commonly used methods and approaches in foreign language teaching. Each chapter is followed by sections "Time to reflect" and "Apply what you have understood" designed to motivate readers to critically read, observe, analyze and question presented methods and approaches.