Preguntas

Lee, w.R. (1957)
The Linguistic Context of Language Teaching
1. What does Lee (1957) men when he states that “no language is ever studied in a linguistic vacuum”?
2. How does mistakesanalysis help language teaching?
It helps us by showing clearly what is most troublesome for the learners concerned and thus where the most need help.
3. What can a representative collection of errorshelp determine?
The scope and nature of pronunciation teaching, the time given to practice with certain structures, the time given to practice with certain expressions and words, and even the orderin which these structures, expressions and words are introduced.
4. How long should a teacher spend at least for speech work and in what areas?
At least five minutes of a forty-minute period canbe regularly spared for speech work of this kind, over and above incidental correction.
5. What possible categories may a teacher use to group mistakes?
Wrong pronunciation, misspellings,non-english constructions and wrong word order, wrong use of sense and so on.
6. How can word mistake study help an English teacher?
It helps a teacher to see which english words are best suited for the“operation” of patterns: possibly those which give difficulty may be avoided for a time.
7. Why is error analysis useful for both inexperienced and experience teachers?
Error analysis is helpfulbecause it helps them by showing what types of errors tend to persist and which therefore demand skillful avoiding action or remedial treatment.
8. Why is it better to have some knowledge of thelearner´s first language?
The teacher can guard the better against misunderstanding.
9. How can native teachers and non native teachers help each other?
They can usefully cooperate also in thecollection and analysis of the learners´ mistakes. By referring the learners´ speech or writing to his own ideas on acceptable english, the one discovers and describes these mistakes. The other looks...