Foreign language didactics: Identity questions

The efforts to emancipate foreign language didactics have been an ongoing and non-linear process launched in our country in the 50s of the previous century. Its key aspects may be presented as foreign language didactics identity questions. These include explicit delineation of the object and methodology of foreign language didactics on the basis of developmental analysis, current state of knowledge and trends/approaches to the discipline. The issues related to the full-fledged scientific status of foreign language didactics are discussed both on a domain-general level (questions relevant for the whole field of subject didactics) and on a domain-specific level (foreign language didactics specific questions).