Part one where do our ideas on foreign language teaching come from?

Topics and review questions

1. 
   An eminent Polish linguist, professor Ludwik Zabrocki, stated in his lectures and talks for foreign language teachers that there are in fact two essential methods of foreign language teaching, the grammar method and the text method, whereas all the others can be treated as their variations to be located somewhere between the main two. Do you think that this idea is tenable? Why? Why not?
   

2. 
   Henry Sweet saw a way to combine a) the Direct Method, especially its emphasis on language learn­ing from text and conversation, where language was arbitrary, with b) the formal focus on grammar