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- Title
The Second Language through the First Language - An Experimental Approach.
- Authors
Murugan, R.; Lakshmana Perumal, N.
- Abstract
This paper entitled 'The Second Language through the First Language - An Experimental Approach' attempts to teach the second language to the learner through his mother tongue. This idea is resulted due to the fact that the learner to some extent is familiar with the concepts in his mother tongue, but the actual problem is in making sentences in English. At the initial stage, the learner finds it difficult to think in English and convert the same in English. Hence the authors started exploring a method where the learner gets the concepts in his mother tongue and is initiated to convert the same in English. Here the status is the stock is sufficient, but the supply lacks free flow. On receiving the first version of the converted matter from the vernacular language to English the authors carefully identify the problem areas of the learner. A thorough analysis is made in the presence of the learner with an attempt to rectify the overall defects in the writing. After this, a second attempt is made and a considerable improvement is experienced. By this time, the learner gains some knowledge of writing sentences of his own. If another attempt is made there will be a lot of improvement.
- Subjects
ENGLISH as a foreign language; NATIVE language instruction; NATIVE language &; education; SENTENCES (Grammar); LANGUAGE acquisition
- Publication
Language in India, 2017, Vol 17, Issue 4, p133
- ISSN
1930-2940
- Publication type
Article