本是介绍第二语言教学领域流派与方法的专著,是对**版的成功延伸。在外语教学进入“后方法时代”之际,作者与时俱进,对**版进行了修订,对原文内容进行了扩充,将全书分成了三个部分:1.20世纪语言教学的主要趋势;2.非传统流派;3.当前的交际流派。 第二版更注重批判性和选择性,在给读者展示更多语言教学流派的同时,寄希望于读者能从纷繁的教学流派中汲取营养,作出理性选择。

Preface
Part I Major trends in twentieth-century language teaching
1 A Brief History of Language Teaching
2 The Nature of Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching
3 The Oral Approach and Situational Language Teaching
4 The Audiolingual Method
Part II Alternative approaches and methods
5 Total Physical Response
6 The Silent Way
7 Community Language Learning
8 Suggestopedia
9 Whole Language
10 Multiple Intelligences
11 Neurolinguistic Programming
12 The Lexical Approach
13 Competency—Based Language Teaching
Part III Current communicative approaches
14 Communicative Language Teaching
15 The Natural Approach
16 Cooperative Language Learning
17 Content—Based Instruction
18 Task—Based Language Teaching
19 The Post-methods Era
Author index
Subject index