Martín Testa
Previously Known Language in Learning a Third Language Knowing more than one language has been found to be an advantage when it comes to learning a third (or further) language. However, on the market a number of ‘successful’ methods can be found that either ban the mother tongue (or another foreign language) from the learning process, or else use it (or them) for constant comparison with the target language. Assuming that both types of approach lead to at least some degree of success (i.e. depending on the individual and sociocultural background of students), the question whether to allow or forbid using another language in the foreign language classroom is an issue that still haunts teachers. Dorota Werbińska
Successful Foreign Language Teaching: Three Teaching Suggestions Successful language teaching is the basic aim of all language teachers. Although this aim has not changed for decades, the understanding of what brings success in language teaching is not unanimous in different times and contexts. This article aims at presenting the understanding of successful language teaching at present. It briefly describes three historicwal, overlapping waves of different understandings of language teaching, followed by the discussion of three practical foreign language classroom techniques: conceptual maps, the flipped classroom, and duoethnographic dialogues. As these classroom activities encourage students to learn deeply and actively, which aligns with the contemporary criteria of good language teaching, they are argued to be successful and worth applying in the language classroom.
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