Modern English Language Didactics: Aspects of Dialectics and Analisis

Abstract

The article offers a review of the most important trends in language didactics as revealed by the consistent development of academic thought in the field over the period of 20th-21st centuries. The aforesaid process has laid foundations for modern didactic practices in foreign language teaching, as it addresses media and competence approaches to cross-cultural understanding of functional characteristics, highlighting the new generation didactic materials.

Keywords

• language didactics
• behaviorism
• structuralism
• situational method
• audio-lingual method
• suggestopedic method
• communicative competence