The evolution of language didactics
Throughout history, the importance of language teaching has been enormous, because languages were needed in culture studies, all-round education, religion or even politics. Didactics of languages has undergone great changes since it first appeared in the 16th-17th centuries. as applied to classical languages, until now, when the communicative approach is one of the most used, combined with various exercises that have inherited the entire history of teaching languages. In this article I will try to consider the most interesting and most important approaches in the didactics of languages, as well as their impact on the current teaching methodology. The first approach to be analyzed in the article will be the method employed to teach classical languages based on the translation of texts. Then, a direct method of teaching foreign languages, together with various tendencies arising from it, will be analyzed. At the end of the article, a detailed explanation of the significance of cognitivism, the science that laid the foundation for a communicative approach, which is still at the center of attention and on which language learning rests, is given. In addition, the main scientific works, in which different approaches are analyzed, will be given a consideration.