在17世纪的欧洲最著名的语言教学的老师名叫Johann Amos Comenius.他用的一些教学法至今对于很多以语言教学为生的人来说都有着简单但实用的指导意义

1.use imitation instead of rules to teach a language

2. have your students repeat after you

3. use a limited vocabulary initially

4. help your students practice reading and speaking

5. teach language trhough pictures to make it meaningful

到了20世纪出现了九种占主导地位的教学法

nine twentieth-century approaches to language teaching

1. grammar-translation

2. direct

3. reading

4. audiolingualism

5. oral-situational

6. cognitive

7. affective-humanistic

8. comprehension-based

9. communicative

关于approach；method；technique

an approach to language teaching is someting that reflects a certain model or research paradigm- a theory, if you like.

this term is the broadest of the three.

a method, on the other hand, is a set of procedures, i.e, a system that spells out rahter precisely how to teach a second or foreign language. it is more specific than an approach but less specific than a technique.

a technique is a classroom device or activity and thus represents the narrowest of the three concepts.