These examples also illustrate the phases through which the influence of
linguistics has gone. As I have mentioned, there is a continuum of influence of
linguistics on language teaching: from a direct influence on language teaching
methods and materials as in the case of the audiolingual method, to an indirect
one on the approach to language teaching in the communicative era. Recently the relationship has therefore become mpre indirect and remote: from a confident 'application' of linguistics to a more indirect connection.