TEACHING ENGLISH THROUGH VARIOUS METHODS

Abstract

Learning and teaching speaking has been influenced by the continuous advances over the past decades. Martínez-Flor, Usó Juan and Soler (2006) account for how speaking has been learned and taught in the approaches, namely, of environmentalist, innatist and interactionist. They state that within the environmentalist approach, i.e. up to the end of the 1960s, the primacy of speaking was obvious since it was assumed that language was primarily an oral phenomenon