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

Ali Hamzah Abu-Ghararah2025-01-061/7/1996https://direct.ksu.edu.sa/handle/ksu-press/5479Abstract. Methods of Teaching English as a Foreign Language contributes to the growing body of language instruction. The book supplies excellent resource materials for not only enlightening young language teachers about the worth and effectiveness of numer-ous teaching methods, but also for leading them to a wise decision in the selection and use of an appropriate method. Asghar bases the book on the assumption that there is no particular teaching method which works effectively for any language learner in all language teaching settings. Asghar's purpose in writing this book is to set forth a comprehensive study of traditional, conventional and modern approaches. Specially, his focus is to spell out points of similarity and dissimilarity that one may come across during the study of fourteen EFL/ESL teaching approaches. Though "it is not the first attempt of this kind" (p. 6) as the author him-self agrees, it is significant and unique in the sense that it reveiws all the fourteen widely known EFL/ESL approaches objectively under one cover. Methods of Teaching English as a Foreign Language: A Com-parative Study of Traditional and Modern Approaches*Journal Article2693https://ksupress.ksu.edu.sa/Ar/Lists/JournalAricle/DispForm.aspx?ID=2693