USING THE MOTHER TONGUE

Libro

Autor	DELLER SHEELLAGH
Editorial	DELTA PUBLISHING
ISBN	9780954198619
Cantidad de páginas	96
Nivel	AVANZADO
Idioma	INGLES INTERNACIONAL
Edad	ADULTOS
Año de edición	2002
Formato	TAPA RUSTICA
Sinopsis	Orthodox thinking over the past forty years has been that the use of mother tongue should be excluded from the foreign language classroom. The authors' contention is, on the contrary, that mother tongue (MT), is indeed the mother of the second, third and fourth languages. It is from this womb that the new languages are born in the student's mind. What they propose is that teachers use the students' mother tongue in clearly-defined circumstances and in the carefully crafted activities that make up the main body of this book. There are two main sections; Part A: Classroom Management and Part B: Living Language. Each is sub-divided. The Classroom Management section divides the 16 activities into four sections - Advocating & avoiding mother tongue, Starting new groups & Getting on-going feedback. These sections look at 'ways that MT can be used to create a safe and cooperative working environment'. The Living Language section contains a massive 99 activities spread among the following sections; Grammar, Vocabulary, Skills - input, Skills - output and Using translation. Each activity comes with a key at the beginning that gives information about the level of MT knowledge needed by the teacher, whether it is for a monolingual or multilingual class, the level of the students and the aims of the activity. The procedures are clearly numbered. The activities are wide-ranging; from awareness of MT use to learner training , to language and to skills development. They are imaginative, well thought out and clearly they are tried and tested. The Grammar section offers contrastive activities such as the 'Student-generated multiple choice' activity. The Vocabulary section also contrasts MT and English with collocations and specific words and lexical sets.
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