Methods of Teaching English as a Foreign Language: A Com-parative Study of Traditional and Modern Approaches*

Abstract. Methods of Teaching English as a Foreign Language contributes to the growing body<br>of language instruction. The book supplies excellent resource materials for not only<br>enlightening young language teachers about the worth and effectiveness of numer-ous<br>teaching methods, but also for leading them to a wise decision in the selection<br>and use of an appropriate method. Asghar bases the book on the assumption that<br>there is no particular teaching method which works effectively for any language<br>learner in all language teaching settings. Asghar's purpose in writing this book is to<br>set forth a comprehensive study of traditional, conventional and modern<br>approaches. Specially, his focus is to spell out points of similarity and dissimilarity<br>that one may come across during the study of fourteen EFL/ESL teaching<br>approaches. Though "it is not the first attempt of this kind" (p. 6) as the author him-self<br>agrees, it is significant and unique in the sense that it reveiws all the fourteen<br>widely known EFL/ESL approaches objectively under one cover.<br>