Learners’ perceptions of grammar-translation as consciousness raising

dc.contributor.authorScheffler, Paweł
dc.date.accessioned2017-12-05T13:08:14Z
dc.date.available2017-12-05T13:08:14Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.description.abstractForeign language teaching methodologies of the 20th century were dominated by the principle of monolingualism. Language teaching specialists and linguists of that time generally argued in their publications against using learners’ own languages in the classroom and described translation as a dull activity which did not contribute anything to language learning. However, since the beginning of the 21st century calls for a reassessment of translation have begun to appear. This article offers an argument for a reassessment of grammar-translation in language teaching based on learners’ perceptions of this activity. It reports a study in which 45 secondary school Polish learners of English were asked to evaluate two consciousness-raising activities they had performed: a grammar-translation task and a communicative language exchange. The results show that the learners considered translating sentences from Polish into English to be as useful and interesting as communicatively-oriented consciousness raising.pl
dc.identifier.citationLanguage Awareness vol. 22(3), 2013, pp. 255-269pl
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10593/20686
dc.language.isoengpl
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesspl
dc.subjectgrammar-translationpl
dc.subjectown-language use in learning Englishpl
dc.subjecttranslation in learning Englishpl
dc.subjectnative language in learning Englishpl
dc.subjectconsciousness raising in foreign language instructionpl
dc.titleLearners’ perceptions of grammar-translation as consciousness raisingpl
dc.typeArtykułpl

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