英語リメディアル教育における日・英語比較の活用

要旨

In this paper, the author presents an English teaching method utilizing comparative linguistic analyses of English and Japanese. He argues that if there is little or no linguistic proximity between the target language and the learner's native language as in English and Japanese, the learner often finds it difficult to inductively understand the target language because s/he cannot utilize the linguistic knowledge of her/his native language. He further argues that in case of Japanese-speaking students learning English, especially in a remedial setting, it is beneficial for the teacher to explain linguistic concepts by comparing them with the Japanese language. The author demonstrates this approach by exemplifying two cases in phonetics/phonology and syntax.

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