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Among various writings about the field of glottodidactics as a science, this article asks the question: in what sense is the term ‘science' used in the expression ‘Glottodudactics as a science? The conception outlined here uses such criteria of ‘normal' science as the goals of the discipline, its relationships with the empirical reality and other disciplines, and the kinds and levels of its reasoning operations. The main goal of ‘normal' science is to explain empirical phenomena. In the context of various other conceptions, my moderately optimistic humanistic idea of science regards it as an integral part of culture, its research operations - as a special case of our cognitive processes, and the interaction among the scientists as a special form of verbal communication.