Historical aspects and modern perspectives of methodology of english language teaching

Abstract

This article examines the historical aspects of methods of teaching a foreign language (including English) and ways to find new ways to motivate students to learn foreign languages. We turn to the beginning of the history of teaching methods, its development to today’s innovations to achieve effective and creative teaching to students. One of such forms is new pedagogical interactive technologies, the introduction of which promotes effective language learning. The article presents examples of interactive teaching methods that can provide a high level of education appropriate to the tasks and opportunities of the modern world. In particular, the article raises the most common questions for the methodology – what to study? What are the learning objectives? When does a teacher confidently understand and achieve these goals in the teaching process? How to teach? This is the importance of methodology as a science and the problems it solves. Next, we highlight the tasks of the teacher in the teaching process, which are the ability to awaken and motivate students’ ability to learn, actually inspire students, develop skills through constant repetition of materials and go from simple steps to more complex. Later in the article we consider historical examples of the work of methodologists from ancient times, such as Eli Donat and Priscian and later works of other scientists. In the process of considering historical facts and methods, we will see how the methodology was formed due to new inventions and technological developments. But at all times and inventions, the basic questions about the effective teaching of foreign languages remain unchanged. The article pays special attention to such scientists as Asher and Lozanov, who worked on how our brain works and the perception of another language. The last part of the article is devoted to interactive teaching of a foreign language (in particular, English), presents practical tasks and summarizes the importance of continuous development of methodology for teaching a foreign language in today’s world.