Recent Pedagogical Approaches and Methodologies in English Language Teaching

Abstract Twenty first century has seen many modified approaches and got them adopted in the language teaching and language learning process. To suit to the order of the day, the language teacher should gear up the language teaching tools, appropriate to the current trends and equip with the modern pedagogical approaches and methodologies in language teaching. The basic objective of language teaching is no simply to transmit the language teacher’s views or knowledge on a language. However, language teaching plays an important role to open up its resources to the learners to enable them to find the right expressions to convey the intended meaning to the listeners. For developing language learning skills in English, the language teacher should adopt appropriate approaches and methodologies from time to time. The pedagogic approach should b