Modern Trends in English Language Teaching

AuthorKadri Krasniqi
PositionPhD candidate of SEEU
Pages37-46
37
Vol. 5 No.1
May, 2019
Balkan Journal of Interdisciplinary Research
IIPCCL Publishing, Graz-Austria
ISSN 2410-759X
Acces online at www.iipccl.org
Modern Trends in English Language Teaching
Kadri Krasniqi
PhD candidate of SEEU
Abstract
Being a global language, English enables people to travel in style around the modern globalized
world, to do business from one corner of the world to another as well as to keep in touch. As
a result of this, teaching and learning English has become an uncompromised importance
and de nitely a huge decision for people to make. Since the development of the modern
trends of English language teaching, which have been gaining tremendous signi cance and
support according to many theorists, however the introduction of modern trends has caused
numerous changes and innovations in educational systems, as stated by a few other theorists.
The question arises that, are we really ge ing any bene ts from new trends or wasting our
time learning and preparing the trends in English language teaching process?
The main purpose of this theoretical paper is to identify the most useful modern trends in
English language teaching and the e ects they are having in the English language teaching
process itself. This theoretical paper is based or referenced on previous and current studies
conducted by many researchers regarding current modern trends in English language
teaching, who tried/are trying to o er best tools for teachers to teach and learners to learn, but
still are faced with various dilemmas and a huge mountain with full of issues concerning the
English language teaching.
A short history of English Language Teaching
English Language has its origin long before the teaching of it began to take place. The history of
English Language Teaching should be divided into three main periods, according to Howa &
Widdowson (2004); Period one from (1400-1800), which starts with the re-emergence of English
as a national language a er three centuries of hard subservience to French and concludes
with the interests of schools in Europe and elsewhere teaching it along other modern foreign
languages. During this period English began challenging at last the long-held monopoly of
classical languages and the urgency among refugees who needed a measure of spoken uency
in English contributed to the challenge;
Period two from (1800-1900), which started with the changes and developments both in Europe
and in the British Empire overseas. During this period English language began being taught
as a foreign language to children in schools which was rarely seen before 1800, but the most
remarkable progress and reform came from the application of theory drawn from linguistics
and psychology;
Period three from (1900 - to the present day), which brings the subject up to date with the
development of English Language Teaching throughout the century and with particular
emphasis on the emergence of English language teaching as an autonomous profession in its
own right.
Keywords: trend, modern, English, language, and teaching.

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