本是介绍第二语言教学领域流派与方法的专著，是对第一版的成功延伸。在外语教学进入“后方法时代”之际，作者与时俱进，对第一版进行了修订，对原文内容进行了扩充，将全书分成了三个部分：1.20世纪语言教学的主要趋势；2.非传统流派；3.当前的交际流派。

第二版更注重批判性和选择性，在给读者展示更多语言教学流派的同时，寄希望于读者能从纷繁的教学流派中汲取营养，作出理性选择。

Preface xxxiii

Part I Major trends in twentieth-century language teaching 1

 1 A Brief History of Language Teaching 3

 2 The Nature of Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching 18

 3 The Oral Approach and Situational Language Teaching 36

 4 The Audiolingual Method 50

Part II Alternative approaches and methods 71

 5 Total Physical Response 73

 6 The Silent Way 81

 7 Community Language Learning 90

 8 Suggestopedia 1 00

 9 Whole Language 108

 10 Multiple Intelligences 115

 11 Neurolinguistic Programming 125

 12 The Lexical Approach 132

 13 Competency—Based Language Teaching 141

Part III Current communicative approaches 151

 14 Communicative Language Teaching 153

 15 The Natural Approach 178

 16 Cooperative Language Learning 192

 17 Content—Based Instruction 204

 18 Task—Based Language Teaching 223

 19 The Post-methods Era 244

Author index 257

Subject index 261