The Transformational Challenge and the Teacher of English  

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Kandiah, Thiru

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language Learning: A Journal of Research in Language Studies (Full Text) vol. 20 no. 2 (Dec. 1970), page 51-182.
Fulltext: 20_02_Kandiah.pdf (1.85MB)

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The transformational model provides the English teacher with an insightful way of looking at the language. Since, however, a trans- formational grammar is hypothetical and abstract and thus excludes factors that the teacher must confront in the classroom, the appli- cation of such analysis raises serious problems. The problems, however, are generally purely pedagogical, and are no reflection on the model; the onus is on the teacher to develop a methodol- ogy that will enable him to maximally exploit the resousces of the theory. At times, however, the classroom problems bring into sharper focus aspects of linguistic behaviour that the linguist might have missed. This might justify a modification of the lin- guistic statement, provided it is corroborated by other purely linguistic evidence. Transformational grammar might also at times suggest refinements of pedagogical methodology, for exam- ple, the introduction of translation as a means of exploiting the common deep structure of languages. It also restores intellectual activity to a position of respectability in the classroom, thereby helping to make language teaching more humane

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