Shall We Forget About L1 When Teaching English?

Abstract

The use of students’ mother tongue in foreign language classrooms has been an issue for many years; yet, without concrete agreement among teachers and scholars who are involved. Particularly, with the rise in communicative language teaching approaches, the tendency has moved towards monolingual teaching, by minimizing or banning the L1 completely. However, most of the time, the teaching and learning context, student profile and the tasks that the students are engaged in have been ignored, and decisions about monolingual and bilingual language teaching have been made. This paper briefly outlines six current studies investigating college students’ use of L1 by making reference to the context and the task in which they are involved. After determining the functions of L1 use by students, the paper makes some suggestions about alternative ways to maximize target language use, especially in areas concerning within group communication, lack of language proficiency and classroom management procedures

Keywords

• Mother Tongue
• Language Acquisition
• Monolingual
• Bilingual

İngilizce Öğretiminde Anadilimizi Unutmalı mıyız?

Öz

Yıllardır süregelen ve net bir sonuca bağlanamayan yabancı dil öğretiminde anadil kullanımının yeri, özellikle iletişimsel eğitim yaklaşımları ile birlikte daha da fazla sorgulanır hale gelmiştir. Ancak öğrenme ortamı, yabancı dilin ikinci bir dil mi yabancı dil olarak mı öğretildiği veya öğrenme hedeflerinin eğitim ortamına göre nasıl değişiklik gösterdiği, sınıf içinde “tekdillilik” veya “ikidillilik” kararları verilirken göz ardı edilmiştir. Bu çalışma, yabancı dil öğrenme sürecinde öğrencilerin ne zaman anadile başvurmalarının dil eğitimine katkısı olacağı, hangi durumlarda ise öğrenim sürecine ket vuracağı ile ilgili bir alan taramasıdır. Öğrenme ortamı, öğrenci grubu özellikleri ve araştırmada ele alınan öğrenme etkinliği baz alınarak analiz edilen altı çalışmanın bulguları sonucunda, ana dil kullanımının hangi durumlarda ve hangi iletişimsel işlevler doğrultusunda kullanıldığı tespit edilmiştir. Belirlenen işlevler arasında öne çıkan grup-içi iletişim ihtiyaçları, dilbilgisel yetersizlikler ve sınıfyönetimi bazlı kullanımlar düşünülerek anadil kullanımını en aza indirgemek için uygulanabilecek önerilerde bulunulmuştur

Anahtar Kelimeler

• Anadil
• Dil Edinimi
• Tekdillilik
• İkidillilik

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