Methodology of Teaching a Foreign Language as an Independent Theoretical and Applied Science

Abstract

The article deals with methodology of teaching a foreign language as an independent theoretical and applied science. The methodology of teaching foreign languages is a system of knowledge about the laws of the process of teaching a non-native language and about ways to influence this process in order to optimize it. The methodology of teaching a foreign language reveals and substantiates the laws of teaching a foreign language. Historically, two functionally different methods have developed: general and specific methods. The general methodology, as a rule, is devoted to the study of the patterns and features of the process of teaching a foreign language, regardless of what foreign language we are talking about in this article.