— In the definitions of this term, Webster’s Third New International Dictionary often uses expressions such as “a procedure or process for attaining” a goal or “a systematic procedure, technique” or “a set of rules” very often related to a science or art . — Hunkis claims that methods “have definite steps or stages and sub-behaviours that are recurrent and applicable to various subject matters”. For our purposes we can consider the method to be a well staged procedure to teach new language.