Mother Tongue Maintenance and Second Language Sustenance: A Two-Way Language Teaching Method  

Oleh:

Al-Harbi, Ahlam

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: TESOL Journal vol. 2 (Jun. 2010), page 144-158.
Topik: Mother tongue; Second language; Adult Language learners; and Mother Tongue Grammar Transformation (MTGT)
Fulltext: Mother Tongue Maintenance.pdf (3.41MB)

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Language Class should invest in teaching not only the grammar of a second language but it should be concerned with preserving and refining the grammar of the mother tongue as well. Focusing on the different aspects of the second language may result in the students? losing interest in the mother tongue, having difficulty translating the meanings of L2 words into the mother tongue, and ignorance of the fact that similar language rules and aspects to accelerate the acquisition of the second language. This paper suggests a method to teach explicit grammar through mother tongue grammar transformation (MTGT). This study has outlined the basic method and assumptions underlying MTGT from the point of view of a practitioner and from that of a language learner. By means of comparison, a second language learner might be able to learn the grammar of the second language and continue to develop that of the mother tongue simultaneously. The idea for this research project stems from the researcher?s observations that many times L2 learners do not seem to adequately learn the grammar taught in the second language class without comparing it to the grammar of their own mother tongue.

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