了解英語教學及教學法發展史，吸取眾家之長，形成自己的教學理念、教學風格，活用各種教學方法，此書是不二
之選。

●Acknowledgments
Introduction to the third edition
Part Ⅰ Major trends in twentieth-century language teaching
1 A brief history of early developments in language teaching
2 The nature of approaches and methods in language teaching
3 The Oral Approach and Situational Language Teaching
4 The Audiolingual Method
Part Ⅱ Current approaches and methods
5 Communicative Language Teaching
6 Content-Based Instruction and Content and Language
Integrated Learning (CLIL)
7 Whole Language
8 Competency-Based Language Teaching, standards, and the
Common European Framework of Reference
9 Task-Based Language Teaching
10 Text-Based Instruction
11 The Lexical Approach
12 ltiple Intelligences
13 Cooperative Language Learning
Part Ⅲ Alternative twentieth-century approaches and methods
14 The Natural Approach
15 Total Physical Response
16 The Silent Way
17 Community Language Learning
18 Suggestopedia
Part Ⅳ The teaching and learning environment
19 Learners, approaches, and methods
20 Teachers, approaches, and methods
21 Approaches, methods, and the curriculum
22 tscript
Appendix: Comparison of approaches and methods
Author index
Subject index

作為介紹語言教學相關知識的寶藏圖書，《語言教學的流派》已更新至第三版。作者視野宏闊，學養深厚，秉持公心，對外語教學簡史及第二語言教學領域的各種流派和方法娓娓道來，不偏不倚，不褒不貶，以期讀者能博采眾家之長，在實際教學中融會貫通，形成自己的風格。