Methodological Concepts and Research Methods Used in Foreign Language Teaching

Abstract

This article examines and illustrates existing methodological concepts in FLT, their main features and techniques, as well as considers their effectiveness for a particular group of learners with their own problems in foreign language acquisition. The following methods have been analysed: the Grammar-Translation Method, the Audio-Lingual Method, the Direct Method and the Communicative Approach. The attention has also been paid to the problem of learning and translating culture-loaded words as one of the aspects in teaching a foreign language. Finally, our own research results in the fi eld of foreign language acquisition are presented.