Introduction The proliferation of approaches and methods is a prominent characteristic of contemporary ESL or EFL teaching. From the Grammar Translation Method, the Direct Method, Situational Language Teaching, the Audiolingual Method to Communicative Language Teaching, Total Physical Response, the Silent Way, Community Language Learning, the Natural Approach and Suggestopedia, the discussion has lasted for more than a century. However, the wide variety of method or approach options confuses rather than comforts, because they seem to hold very different views of what language is and how a language is learned (Richards & Rodgers, 1991) . This confusing situation is mainly caused by the myth of the hu-