GRAMMAR AND TRANSLATION METHOD IN TEACHING FOREIGN LANGUAGES

Abstract

Even at the end of the XIX century, gymnasium education was considered elite. Its goal was the harmonious development of students, education in them not only a sense of beauty, but also the ability to think logically, including through teaching foreign languages. The classical languages required for the gymnasium — Latin and ancient Greek-served as a model of harmony, consistency, and logic. The linguistic understanding of language as a system had methodological consequences: if we consider language as a system, then we can master the system thoroughly by studying and understanding it. The most systematic level of a language is its grammar