A Brief Examination of Some Earlier Grammar-based Methods through Brown’s Twelve Principles of Language Teaching

Abstract

This article briefly explores the twelve principles of language teaching and learning formulated by H. Douglas Brown and also the underlying principles of some of the earlier grammar-based methods to calculate how consistent these principles are with those of Brown’s. The grammarbased approaches chosen for evaluation are the Grammar Translation Method, the Direct Method, the Audiolingual Method, the Silent Way and Suggestopedia. Interestingly enough, many of Brown’s principles are found to be in complete or partial agreement with some of the principles of the earlier grammar-based methods.