Should A Second Language Be Taught By A Native Speaker?
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2018
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Proceedings of the Undergraduate Research Symposium (HUG 2018), Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Humanities, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka
Abstract
Throughout the history of linguistics, many research studies have proven that a second language should be taught by a native speaker of the target language. Since Leonard Bloomfield’s army method (audio-lingual method), the field of language teaching has always adopted the method of using a native speaker as the tutor. The objective of this research study is to find answers to the question, “should a second language be taught by a native speaker? The importance of this research study is to emphasize the fact that a language like Tamil is difficult to be comprehended when taught by a native speaker. Questionnaires will be distributed among undergraduates of the Department of Linguistics who have actually faced difficulties in learning a second language like Tamil. Evaluating questionnaires and information gathered from the Internet it will be proved that using a native speaker to teach a second language is not successful in every situation.
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Second language, Native speaker, Target language, Tamil, Bloomfield
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Wanniarachchi, N., Ranathunge, S. and Siriwardhana, V. (2018). Should A Second Language Be Taught By A Native Speaker?, Proceedings of the Undergraduate Research Symposium (HUG 2018), Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Humanities, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, P.90