Transcription of Myths about Teaching and Learning Second Language ...
{{id}} {{{paragraph}}}
TESLR eporter37,2(2004), pp. 1-13 Myths about Teaching andLearningSecondLanguageVocabulary:What RecentResearch SaysKeith S. FolseUniversityofCentralFlorida,USAI ntroduction1 Learninga languageentailslearningnumerousaspectsab outthatlanguage,includingitspronunciatio n,writingsystem,syntax,pragmatics,rhetor icalmodesforreadingandcomposition,cultur e,andspelling, (L2)researchreflectsthisimportance,assee nin ( ,naturalcontextordirectinstruction)(Lauf er&Shmueli,1997;Zimmerman,1997),learners 'vocabularylearningstrategies(Gu,1994;Le ssard-Clouston,1994;Sanaoui,1995;Nassaji ,2003),thedevelopmentofL2learners'vocabu laries(Laufer,1998;Schmitt,1998;Nesselha uf,2003),the useofLlor L2 forinitialwordpresentation(Prince,1995;G race,1998),theeffectofdifferentpracticea ctivitiesonlearning(Joe,1995,1998;Folse, 1999),thenumberofwordsL2learnersneedtokn ow(Hazenberg&Hulstijn,1996),andwhichword sstudentsneedtoknow(Coxhead,2000;Liu,200 3).Thefindingsofthesestudiescastdoubtonc ommonmythsaboutL2vocabularyteachingandle arning(Folse,2004b).
2 TESLReporter Myth 1 Vocabulary is Not as Important in Learning a Foreign Language as Grammar or Other Areas Comprehensible input helps learners figure out how a language works.
Domain:
Source:
Link to this page:
Please notify us if you found a problem with this document:
{{id}} {{{paragraph}}}
LANGUAGE LEARNING STRATEGIES, LANGUAGE LEARNING STRATEGIES STRATEGY DESCRIPTION METACOGNITIVE STRATEGIES, Strategies to Overcome Barriers to Learning, Strategies, Learning, Language, FOREIGN LANGUAGE LEARNING AND DYSLEXIA Margaret, Active Teaching Strategies and Learning Activities, ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING AND LEARNING, English