Foundations of Methodology What is the method or an approach to language teaching? The author this book mentioned and applied linguistics to distinguish the terms, they are approach, method, and techniques as they apply to language Teaching. First an Approach reflects a theoretical model or Research Paradigm. Approach use philosophy of how people learn in General. They can be psychologically focused such as behaviorism or cognitivist, so they can also be based on older philosophic such as Idealism and Realism, next Second Method step by step manner how to teach a second foreign Language, examples of methods are the Silent Way, Communicative Language Learning, and Suggestopedia. A Method is more specific than a Technique. Technique is Specific classroom Activity; that represents the most specific and concrete of the three Concepts. Example: Dictation, Listening and repeat drills, and read the passage and fill in the blacks. Finally to according...