Traditions and Prospects of the Development of Russian Foreign Language Teaching Theory from the Historical Perspective (in memory of A. A. Mirolubov) Part 1. The Beginning of the XX c. – the 60s

The article gives a historic survey of the development of foreign language teaching theory in Russia considering the period of the beginning of the XX c. up to the 60s; this period is defined as the generation and successive development of the Russian conscious-comparative method of teaching foreign languages; the author outlines the systemic approach based on the continuity of tradition in Russian science and culture, emphasizing the independent route of the Russian theory as the foreign language teaching methodology in the global context.