Historical approach to teaching foreign language

Abstract

The publication of this work is to make a historical-pedagogical approach to teaching foreign languages, part of the Humanism and concluding with the current theories and methods. Since the 18th century with the emergence of traditional method, also known as the method of grammar and translation, to the methodological principles of communicative approaches, it have been going a number of methods with the intent to resolve and improve teaching techniques for teaching and learning a second language. However, it is worth to note that this is a scientific developments, as most of the methods take as a starting point for his reflections ideas, suggestions, beliefs, techniques and procedures of former methods that preceded them, therefore we cannot speak of revolutionary methods, but rather evolutionary.

Keywords

• historia
• enseñanza
• didáctica
• lenguas extranjeras
• metodología