A Brief Analysis on the Application of Grammar-Translation Method and Communicative Language Teaching in English Reading Teaching

Grammar-translation method and communicative language teaching are two important methods in the language teaching. Both methods have shown pros and cons in the long time of practical application, and have strong complementarity. Therefore, it is of certain practical significance to explore the combination of the two teaching methods. This paper seeks English reading teaching as a starting point and compares the pros and cons of GTM and CLT. On this basis, it is necessary to carry out the research to analyze these two teaching methods and explores their comprehensive application in English reading teaching.