OVERVIEW OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE TEACHING APPROACHES AND METHODS

Abstract

Throughout the twentieth century English language teaching methods have passed through tremendous changes. These changes are actually due to various social, economic, and cultural factors. In fact, the world has changed rapidly and radically in the past few years than at any time since the second word war. In the last four decades the word has become a unique globe, the thing which resulted in political, economic, and industrial exchange and interdependence. Also, English language became the world standard language, since it represents the language of science, technologies, and global transactions as affirmed in the Economist (1996) "English continues to be the world standard language, and there is no major threat to the language or to its global popularity." Thus English language is closely associated with economic modernization and industrial development. These factors actually contributed immensely to the spread of English language all over the world and change its traditional role. Since then it has been used to communicate with strangers and becomes, in most of the cases a very necessary tool that opens windows to the world and paves the way to grand opportunities.