Trends of New ELT Methodologies

Teaching of English is as important as the teaching of any other language is, as English has become one of the mostly used International language for last many decades. Considerably English language has as many non native speakers as it has native speakers. Teaching of English language covers tremendous importance for teachers, students and researchers as well. They adopt different means and strategies to teach and learn English language. In this novel and trendy era of learning new and novel methods are adopted to teach English language. Traditional and conventional methods are still prevalent and widely used by teachers at school level. GTM, CLT, Direct Method, Audio Lingual Method, Mimicry, Play Way, Silent Way, Project Method, Suggestopedia etc are common methods as per the use. A survey showed that teachers favor Grammar Translation Method for teaching grammar of English Language. They said that students like A.V Aids and variety of methods, techniques and activities. They are also of the view that success of any method depends upon its effectiveness in producing good results in the form of learning and performance of students.