Yance RLL; Rodríguez EE; Leyva VF

Language: Spanish
References: 9
Page: 115-122
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ABSTRACT

The authors of this paper reviewed some facts and offered some opinions and experience of outstanding experts, in addition to their own pieces of experience after a number of years devoted to teaching English as a second language, in order to give answers that might be conclusive for very usual questions in this type of education: What is the role of the mother tongue in English teaching as a second language? How could the mother tongue be used in a productive way? Do the beginners really need the mother tongue in their English classes? Some useful experience in using the mother tongue as a pedagogic technique for better understanding of the foreign language by the students was analyzed.

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