Open AccessImplications of Selected Use of Learner’s First Language in English Language Teaching
Author(s) -
Nan Kang
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of higher education research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2717-607X
pISSN - 2717-6061
DOI - 10.32629/jher.v2i5.517
Subject(s) - coursework , language education , communicative language teaching , language assessment , comprehension approach , foreign language , language industry , language pedagogy , mathematics education , sociology of language , language acquisition , linguistics , english language , psychology , philosophy
This academic essay is an assessed coursework in Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching for taught postgraduate in School of Languages, Linguistics, Queen Mary University of London. This essay seeks to identify the necessity of inclusion of First Language in foreign language teaching and its following positive and negative impacts. Involving Target Language in language lessons is a bright idea due to its cognitive, communicative and social functions, though it might cause a few problems, such as the limited effect on elite students, the inefficient and time- consuming learning process, student’s over-reliance of L1. In the end, the essay provides a few teaching suggestions for language teachers.