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Secondly, the use first language can be also a useful tool to develop an effective
understanding of the second language throughout the English course. From the
perspective of English as a foreign language students, meaning focused tasks can
carry a ponderous amount of consciousness load, the majority of learners tend to use
their first language to make themselves understood within groups, due to the
embarrassing consequences that second language communication employment can
provoke. According to many authors as Nation, 1991; Lado, Baldwin and Lobo, 1967;
Mishima 1967; Laufer and Shmueli, 1997, and so on. There are different studies
validating the use of their second language as a high speed collaborator to learn new
vocabulary thoroughly. This reality happens when teachers applies constant exposure
to learners native language to carry on second language activities. Therefore,
students will manage the use of their first language in a pleasant circumstance to gain
knowledge that can be useful and highly applicable in a future second language
acquisition context. It is important however not to assume the applicability of first
language in all cases, hence some students can start using their first language more
frequently, when the real purpose of teachers for them is to develop a second
language with just a minor help from their first language
As a group, we agree with the statements presented in the article. We think that it is
very important for us, as future teachers of a second language, to know in deep the
procedures used in classroom context, as guidance to help them catch their principal
goal, and to develop a genuine knowledge and fluency in second language acquisition.
While Nation gave us also some clues on how we can manage tasks in the classroom,
another authors suggests the fruitful implementation of variant approaches which can
be pointed as a contrastive position in the study of a second language acquisition.
Notwithstanding, each one fulfill a not less important piece in the process of becoming
a proficient English learner.
References
Nation, P. (2003). The role of the first language in foreign language learning.
Asian EFL Journal, 5(2), 1-8.