Author: Santiago

Modern textbooks take into account the linguistic aspects of a second language. In Fanfare, for example, Barbara Wilkes cites the following as her aims and objectives: to create an initial interest and enjoyment in foreign-language learning; to develop a positive...

Every aspect of language is enormously complex. Yet, children learn most of the intricate system of their mother tongue before the age of six. Before they can add 2+2, children are putting sentences together, asking questions, negating sentences, using the syntactic...

We will start our discussion with a sort of introduction and continue with the first point that deals with the influences of Linguistic Language Teaching, as well as the influences of other sciences. At this point from a definition of Linguistics, we then move onto...

The teaching of foreign languages has always developed along with Linguistics,although it has been in this century when the traditional conceptions of science of language has been transformed by a widening and specializing of its knowledge. On the other hand...

Using a foreign language eefectively requires having a number of different abilities. Linguistists have identified four major abilities, which are called linguistic skills. They are: listening, speaking, reading and writing. (about their classification and their integration...