Welcome to English Methodology!Unit 3 The National English Curriculum3.1 Brief History1. Foreign Language Teaching before 1978 1st 15 years: Russian predominant1966-1976:The Cultural Revolution2.Since 1978,English dominatesDevelopment of ELT:a. Restoration1978-1985: basic phonetics, grammar and a certain amount of wordsb. Rapid development 1986-1992:Brief Historyc. Reform1993-2000:Compulsory EducationCommunicative ApproachPEP and Longmand. InnovationFrom 2000 until now3 steps lead to :New Nation