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- Title
ABOUT THE NOTION OF DIFFICULTY IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE LEARNING AND SOME EFFORTS TO ESTABLISH THEDEGREEOF DIFFICULTY FROM THE NATIVE LANGUAGEPOINT OF VIEW.
- Authors
FIDA, Artan; Lama, Irena; Maloku, Fadil
- Abstract
It is important, either for the teachers, or program and text authors, and students themselves) to determine the degree of difficulty on a linguistic form or structure in the process of learning a foreign language. One of the factors, which determine the degree of difficulty, is the distance between both languages, the foreign and the native ones, as illustrated through different scholars' point of view on this matter. The author presents examples of degrees of difficulty conceived by different scholars: either for the phonology (Stockwell & Bowen, and Brière), or for the grammar (Stockwell & Bowen & Martin, and Prator), or for the lexicon (Lado's suggestions), concluding, however, that this issue still remain opened for further discussions. Several factors that might influence the degree of difficulty are mentioned in the paper, such as: Learning and teaching strategies, teaching materials, chronology on presenting language phenomena, simultaneous learning of two foreign languages, learner's individual characteristics, time dedicated to the learning of a language etc.
- Publication
Vizione, 2018, Issue 30, p27
- ISSN
1409-8962
- Publication type
Article