Title: Teaching English as a Foreign Language and Mother Tongue Teaching: some parallels
Abstract: Abstarct This article discusses current parallel developments in the teaching of English as a foreign language and as a mother tongue. The authors suggest that, while each teaching situation has its own unique problems and procedures, concern for the communicative function of language has come to be central to both, and that therefore philosophies, problems and in some cases materials can be shared with profit. The paper discusses the use of communicative function, as an integrating principle for syllabus design, and the related issue of study skills and their general ability across the curriculum. Some problems encountered by practitioners in both fields are compared, such as the possibility that different psychological processes are used by the two types of learner, and the conflicts inherent in the teacher's role.
Publication Year: 1978
Publication Date: 1978-11-01
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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