Methods and Approaches for Teaching Catalan as an Additional Language.

Sometimes, methodological changes may seem to follow trends, but in reality, they result from addressing, on the one hand, society’s needs in a specific cultural context for language learning and, on the other, the desire to implement research findings and reach a consensus on proposals from different periods. This evolution involves the adaptation, recovery, or inclusion of aspects from approaches or methods of earlier periods into current methods, with the aim of offering the most effective strategies to facilitate language learning. With this purpose, the authors of this volume review the different methods and approaches for teaching additional languages to adults. They highlight their influence and relevance and emphasize how the legacy of each has endured in the teaching of Catalan.