Language education involves teaching and learning languages, including improving skills in one's native language, but mainly focuses on learning foreign or second languages. It is a branch of applied linguistics. There are three main methods for teaching foreign languages: the structural view which treats language as a system to code meaning, the functional view which sees language as a way to express functions like requests, and the interactive view which views language as a way to create social relationships through conversational exchanges, with the interactive view being dominant since the 1980s.

5. Methods of teaching foreign languages There are three principal views at this level: 1.The structural view treats language as a system of structurally related elements to code meaning (e.g. grammar).

6. 2.The functional view sees language as a vehicle to express or accomplish a certain function, such as requesting something .

7. 3.The interactive view sees language as a vehicle for the creation and maintenance of social relations, focusing on patterns of moves, acts, negotiation and interaction found in conversational exchanges. This view has been fairly dominant since the 1980s