Traditions and Prospects of the Development of Russian Foreign Language Teaching Theory from the Historical Perspective (in memory of A. A. Mirolubov): Part 2. The 1970s – the beginning of the 1990s

The article continues a historic survey of the development of foreign language teaching theory in Russia considering the period of the 70s up to the beginning of the 90s; this period is defined as the generation and development of the Russian communicative method of teaching foreign languages; the authors emphasize the independent route of the Russian theory in the global context on the basis of the concept of language as communication, theory of action-oriented communication, foreign language acquisition and developmental education in Russian research.