LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 13:5 May 2013
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
         Sam Mohanlal, Ph.D.
         B. A. Sharada, Ph.D.
         A. R. Fatihi, Ph.D.
         Lakhan Gusain, Ph.D.
         Jennifer Marie Bayer, Ph.D.
         S. M. Ravichandran, Ph.D.
         G. Baskaran, Ph.D.
         L. Ramamoorthy, Ph.D.
Assistant Managing Editor: Swarna Thirumalai, M.A.

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Let’s Humanize Language Teaching by Using L1

Ms. Deepti Jindal, M.A., B.Ed.

Introduction

The role of the first language (L1) and the second (L2) in the foreign language classroom has been the subject of much discussion and considerable controversy among linguists and language teachers. It is observed that the teachers not only feel guilty while using L1 in the classroom, they use translation as a last resort and avoid translating new words. Feeling uncomfortable to translate a word in the first language themselves, most of them elicit it from a student. Even that is done mostly orally, never in writing. Majority of teachers don’t want to talk about it because they always feel inferior while talking about it.

Why do Teachers Feel Guilty in Using L1?

Why is it so? Are there any specific directions about using the first language in the classrooms? No. But, in general, teachers develop this kind of attitude because frequently, use of first language (L1) is condemned while teaching a second language (L2) such as English.

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Ms. Deepti Jindal, M.A., B.Ed.
Research Scholar, Amity Institute of English Studies & Research
AMITY University
Noida - 201301
Uttar Pradesh
India
malusinghal@gmail.com
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