Different times different methods

Many TEL experts have contributed a lot and introduced different methods of teaching one after another.There has been continual debate about how to describe teaching learning process and which one is the best one.The history of debate is as long as the history of language teaching. Much current practice is the direct result of such constructive argument.It is very clear that different methods have been introduced and used in different times.
  The GT (Grammar translation )method is the oldest method emerged during the classical period to teach the classical languages such as Latin,Greek and Sanskrit.This was probably the most commonly used way of learning English and other also for hundreds of year.Practitioners thought that by analyzing the Grammar and by finding equivalents between the students 'language and language to be studied,the students will learn how the foreign language(English) is constructed. learning language was viewed as memorizing the rules and facts in order to understand and manipulate morphology and syntax of the foreign language learning a second language was to learn to its Grammar to attain the value of the literacy texts.
 But after a long time some otherTEL experts criticized this method .They argued that the GT method stops the students from getting the kind of natural language input that will help them acquire language and students do not get opportunity to use the language in real context and danger with GT method is that it teaches people  about the language and does not really help them to learn the language itself.Then they introduced the direct method.
The direct method emerged  as the reaction against the GT method in the late 19th century.They believed that a language could be taught by using it actively  in the classroom.Direct and spontaneous use of language in the classroom is better than the traditional method of Grammar teaching.Learners would be able to induce Grammar on the basis of language use spontaneously.But this method also had it's own pros and cons.Therefore this method was also criticized and other new method named audio-lingual method was introduced.This was the name given to a language teaching methodology based heavily on  behaviorist  theories of learning.These theories suggested that much language(English) is the result of habit formation thorough conditioning.As a result of this,audio-lingual class concentrated on long drill repetition stages in which the teacher hope that the students would acquire good language habits.
Audio-lingual ism went out of fashion because commentators from all sides argued that language learning was far more subtle than just the formation of habits.After this also LET experts introduced different new methods.They introduced tasked based learning method where the emphasis is on the tasks rather than the language*ENGLISH  ] this was based on the principle of learning by doing.Similarly they  introduced communicative language teaching method which focused on language use ,the communicative aspects of the language.It was thought that if the students get enough and opportunities for language use and if they are motivated -then language learning will take care of itself.It reminded teachers that people learn language not so that they know them but so that can communicate.Similarly, some  other LET experts have also introduced different methods like community,language learning total physical response.  Desuggestopedia etc.
 Above arguments and examples prof that LET experts have been decorously contributing to introduced a new and effective teaching method. It seems as if they are going through a cut throat competition.As a result, various kind of new methods of teaching are introduced .There has been much progress in the field of language teaching .(English).