TO THE PROBLEM OF COMBINATION OF TRADITIONAL AND MODERN METHODS IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING

Abstract

Thе paper reviews the problem of rational
combination of traditional and modern methods
of foreign language teaching, subjects to a critical
analysis the socalled postmethod pedagogy. The
paper stresses that skepticism toward the concept
of method and the search for an alternative to
method would not guarantee the future of practice
in the field of language teaching, as this search has
not proved to bridge the gap between theory and
practice 

There have been some dramatic developments
in language teaching in recent years. We have
reconceptualized the nature of language,
reevaluated the role of the student within the
learning process, and generated new insights into
instructed foreign language acquisition. Our
greatest challenge now in not to throw out well
established practices, as so often happened in the
past, but to incorporate new ways of doing things
into existing practice. In this sense, change will be
evolutionary rather than revolutionary. By linking
developments in language teaching firmly to the
educational mainstream, and by critically testing
out new ideas, we should reach a phase in the
evolution of the profession in which we are not
ashamed to admit to merit in past practices, while,
at the same time, being able to acknowledge that
significant improvements are necessary