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Language Learning and Teaching Methods Have Been Changed

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  Everyone must know at least one language, a mother tongue learned from childhood. Learning languages and teaching methods are varied. In the past, these are traditional and simple, but recently new methods have emerged, using new tools in learning and teaching language. In my essay I will discuss some changes in modern education and highlight the advantage and disadvantage. References by Gousie (2003) of these new methods will be mentioned.
  Learning and teaching languages have evolved. Rivers (1981), an expert in the teaching of foreign languages, expounds in the past, learning languages are restricted to the static classroom. Textbooks make up the main source of information. Moreover, audiotapes are the only fashionable way to learn. Teaching methods have diversified from one of having a teacher in presenting...