Using
the mother-tongue to promote noticing :
Translation as a way of scaffolding learner
language.
Here is a thought provoking article by famous
English writer Vincent Ferrer.
Ferrer's articles are helping me from long to teach
my students English in a different way. Just I
wanted to suggest you this article for Today.
Abstract: With the emergence of research into
the role of form-focused instruction,
teacher-researchers have begun to acknowledge the
mother tongue as a legitimate tool with the
potential to facilitate learning mainly in
accuracy-based tasks. This article reports on the
findings from a comparative study of teachers’,
teacher educators’ and students’ perceptions carried
out in Spain. The participants give their views on
the desirability of, at times, providing learners
with the English translation of what they are trying
and finding difficult to say as a way of scaffolding
or aiding their output. Results suggest that such
scaffolding may be conducive to noticing on the part
of the learners of the gap existing between their
current inner grammar and the target grammar.
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