THE ROLE AND FUNCTION OF THE NATIVE TEACHER  

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Bedford, Richard C.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language Learning: A Journal of Research in Language Studies (Full Text) vol. 19 no. 1-2 (1969), page 17-25.
Fulltext: 19_01-02_Bedford.pdf (529.99KB)

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The native teacher’s present frustration and confusion as to his role and function under the oral-aural approach can be eliminated via his acceptance of a division of teaching labor in which full utilization is made of his fluency in his students’ na- tive language. Employing this fluency, usually unavailable to the foreign teacher, the native teacher can attempt clarification of essential contrasts in evaluation of experience as well as in underlying social values distinguishing the target language from the students’ native language. Moreover, that fluency can im- mediately alert the native teacher to typical student substitution of structures of the native language in their target language ut- terances. And by his sensitizing of the foreign teacher to in- stances of this common resort to silent translation, the native teacher can enhance the value of the foreigner’s teaching per- formance. Furthermore, it is by such day-to-day cooperative teaching activity that the native teacher can not only increase his own fluency but can best serve his students as inspiring exem- plar of both the possibility of learning the target language and the necessity of seizing on every occasion to speak it.

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