1. This article offers an overview of historical developments in efl (English as a Foreign Language) teaching methodology over the last 250 years

1. This article offers an overview of historical developments in EFL (English as a Foreign Language) teaching methodology over the last 250 years. Being based on periods rather than methods, it is intended as an alternative kind of account to the ‘method mythologies’ which have tended to dominate professional thinking for the last thirty years. Thus, we structure our account according to four periods characterized by main concerns and overall approaches, revealing greater continuity and overlap among teaching theories and practices than in accounts which accept discrete, bounded ‘methods’ as the primary unit of organization. Confronting a conception of the past typically presented as universal but in fact reflecting a USA-centric perspective, our alternative, UK-focused and, to some extent, European version of history asserts the value of explicit geographical contextualization and indicates a new direction for the history of EFL teaching — ‘beyond method’, and in multiple locations.

2. Besides the mother tongue it was traditional and customary to know foreign languages, the languages of other nations. As it was done the part of the world from early tones. There was a necessity of knowledge of foreign language in all the periods of the development of the society. The main principle of the outstanding people (thinkers) was multilingual knowledge. People inhabiting in Uzbekistan knew each other's language. It was traditional to know neighbors' tongue. Besides it's known that leaning the language of for countries as well. Arabic, Persian were popular among the people. Most people learned European languages and Russian. In the 70th of past century some European languages has been taught. We have many investigators of the History of foreign language teaching in Uzbekistan. Among them is Rimma Alexandorovna. Zaripova a methodologist who divides the history of foreign language teaching into 6 periods. 1st period starts, from the 70th of the 19th century till 1917.

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