What teaching models have influenced current teaching practice?
For as long as people have been learning and teaching languages, there has been continual debate about how to describe the process and what the best ways of doing it are. Much current teaching practice is the direct result of such constructive argument.
There have been some traditional language learning techniques that have used for many years. In more recent times, there have been five teaching models which have had a strong influence on classroom practice – and which teachers and trainers still refer to. They are grammar translation, Audio – lingualism, PPP, Task Based Learning, and communicative Language Teaching.