scholarly journals The Role of The Teacher in Building Intercultural Communication Skills in Foreign Language Teaching: Teachers’ Views with Examples from France and Turkey

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Gizem Köşker ◽  
Gülnihal Gülmez
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Intercultural Communication ◽  
Communication Skills ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Foreign Language Teaching

The Role of Translation in Language Teaching

2015 ◽  
pp. 118-135
Author(s):  
Anna Maria D'Amore
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Student Performance ◽  
Communication Skills ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
First Language ◽  
Oral Communication ◽  
Modern Language ◽  
Foreign Language Acquisition ◽  
English Reading

With the development of approaches and methods in Modern Language teaching that favoured oral communication skills and advocated more “natural” methods of second/foreign language acquisition, methodology calling for translation in the classroom was shunned. Nonetheless, translation used as a resource designed to assist the student in improving his or her knowledge of the foreign language through reading comprehension exercises, contrastive analysis, and reflection on written texts continues to be practiced. By examining student performance in problem-solving tasks at the Autonomous University of Zacatecas, this chapter aims to demonstrate the validity of “pedagogical translation” in ELT in Mexico, particularly at undergraduate level where it is an integral part of English reading courses in Humanities study programmes, not as an end in itself, but as a means to perfecting reading skills in a foreign language and furthermore as an aid for consolidating writing and communication skills in the student's first language.

Het Belang Van Taalkunde Voor de Toegepaste Taalkunde

1981 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 246-257
Author(s):  
A.G. Sciarone
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Applied Linguistics ◽  
Foreign Language Teaching ◽  
Linguistic Understanding ◽  
Language Courses ◽  
The Difference ◽  
And Linguistics ◽  
Task Division

Applied Linguistics is generally regarded as a multidisciplinary field in which didactics, psychology and linguistics participate. It is remarkable that within the context of foreign language teaching the focus is mainly on the didactic experiment and on the construction of psycholinguistic hypotheses. Yet for a linguistic-didactic experiment to be relevant, insight in what is to be taught, viz. language,is necessary. Many variants of language teaching could have been avoided with a better linguistic insight. Moreover, a better linguistic understanding in applied linguis-tics leads to a better distinction between the views of linguists on language didactics and psycholinguistics and the descriptions of language they give. In this paper the relation between grammar and vocabulary is discussed. It is argued that this distinction is based more on definition than on reality. Stressing the importance of the role of vocabulary does not imply denying or minimising the importance of grammar. On the contrary, the traditional task division in linguistics between grammar and lexicology has led to a sterile grammatical description. Recent tendencies in linguistics now show a more integrated description of grammar and vocabu-lary. Finally, with regard to the didactically important problem of vocabu-lary selection, some remarks are made concerning the difference between selection on the basis of linguistic properties and selection on the basis of usually arbitrary non-linguistic idiosyncrasies of words and the influence of this on teaching material. This is illustrated with examples from language courses.

scholarly journals Ensino de língua estrangeira: os métodos

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 249-265
Author(s):  
Milena Meira Ramos dos Santos
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Teaching Experience ◽  
Foreign Language Teaching ◽  
Learning Assessment ◽  
Teaching Methodologies ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Over Time

Language teaching methodologies have changed/improved over the years to meet the needs of teachers and students in the classroom. In this paper we aim to present the evolution of foreign language teaching through a description of language teaching methodologies over time. We describe the principles underlying some methodologies, the role of teacher and student, and how learning assessment is done. Authors such as Richards and Rodgers (1991), Almeida Filho (1999), Silva (2004), Pérez (2007), among others, were some of the academic experts on which we relied to conduct this study. We conclude that methods should work as a reference for the teacher, and should be adapted to each particular situation or context in which they live. Therefore, the teachers should use the methodologies that reflect their principles, reducing the distance between the theory developed by language experts and the teaching experience.

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