Exploiting the Theory of Universals in Adult Second Language Teaching  

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Kandiah, Thiru

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: IRAL: International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching vol. 32 no. 2 (May 1994), page 111-140.

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/IRA/32 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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Drawing on insights made available by the teaching of English in a context where there already exists an institutionalized New Variety of English, and calculatedly adopting a somewhat conservative generative linguistic model, the paper discusses a bilingual teaching strategy that, it argues, will permit the Universalist Hypothesis (UH) to be purposively exploited in L2 classrooms in a way that would dispel teachers' scepticism about the relevance of such linguistic abstractios to their tasks. The strategy attempts to reconcile the best insights of the Contrastive Hypothesis and the Identity Hypothesis, by looking at the matching process (MP) learners naturally carry out across Ll and L2 in neither the merely negative terms of the former nor the merely positive terms of the latter. Where the languages share universal features, it will assist the MP to go through. Where there are variations in the way in which they draw on and realize the universals, resulting in learning problems, it will help awaken learners to an intuitive awareness of universal possibilities which are used by L2 but which, owing to their nonuse or different use by Ll, lie dormant in their own Ll influenced language faculty. Formalizing the MP as it is sophisticatedly carried out in contact situations by competent bilinguals (who, after all, are what successful teaching courses would produce) by means of a construct called Interlinguistic Transderivations (ITD), the paper will indicate how the strategy will carry out both these tasks along the lines suggested by these ITD.

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