The Use of Mother Tongue in Foreign Language Teaching

DOI

10.2991/mmetss-18.2018.59How to use a DOI?

Keywords

mother tongue, Foreign Language Teaching, aspects

Abstract

The role of mother tongue has always been an important issue in the study of Foreign Language Teaching. In different methods and approaches, the role of mother tongue is different. Some researchers think that mother tongue is very important and should be used in Foreign Language Teaching; while, other researchers hold that mother tongue should be avoided in teaching foreign languages. Through methods of interview and questionnaires, the present study explores the use of mother tongue in College English classrooms: whether Chinese could be used in College English classrooms and if it could be used, then, in which aspects could Chinese be used. The results show that mother tongue could be used in College English classrooms and could be used to some extent when explaining new words, explaining grammar, and explaining text.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Haining Xu
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TI  - The Use of Mother Tongue in Foreign Language Teaching
BT  - Proceedings of the 2018 3rd International Conference on Modern Management, Education Technology, and Social Science (MMETSS 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
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