The paper addresses the brief history of English language teaching (ELT) methods in general andthe type of ELT methods. It also presents the recent research on English language teachingmethods and the debates that move towards the post-method pedagogy in second languageteaching/learning. The paper deals with the brief summary of the methods and approaches inlanguage teaching from Grammar-translation method to Communicative Language Teaching. It also looks the debate on post-method pedagogy