A. A. Mirolubov and the Development of Foreign Language Teaching Methods in the Second Part of the 20th Century

The paper is devoted to the development of foreign language teaching methods in the second part of the 20th century.It analyses the main achievements of L.V. Scherba’s successors and followers.The paper also describes the contribution of academician A. A. Mirolubov to the foundation of foreign language teaching methods as a scientific field of knowledge, to the development of conscious-comparative method, to the history of international and domestic methods of foreign language teaching, to covering the gap between the theory and practice of teaching, to scientists’ and foreign language teachers’ pedagogical training.