What are the main foreign language teaching methods?

manpreet Best Answer 2 years ago

Recently I have been wondering what methods and techniques for learning and teaching foreign languages exist. My quest is to re-evaluate my views on foreign language acquisition, and maybe make some changes to my own approach.

To keep this question from getting too broad though, for now I want to focus exclusively on foreign language teaching methods (my assumption being that the majority of research has been done in this field, but I might be wrong on that).

So what are the main foreign language teaching methods - whether it be those that have been tried in the past or those that are still in use?

I would very much appreciate some short descriptions of the various methods and if possible also a link to some on-line source on this subject.

NOTE: After some criticism in the comments this question has been completely re-written to hopefully better fit the scope and criteria of Language Learning StackExchange. The original title was: "What are the main points of contention as far as methods and techniques of language learning are concerned?"