RAISING STUDENTS? AWARENESS ON THE IMPORTANCE OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES ACQUISITION
Autor (i): Ramona Elena, Chitu
JEL: I 121
Cuvinte cheie: language awareness, social interaction, blending, global language, motivation
Abstract:
In an attempt to investigate the level of awareness among students on the importance of learning English as a second language, this paper aims at highlighting the role played by the foreign language professor in helping students gaining a positive attitude towards language acquisition. Teaching and consequently learning a foreign language used to focus mainly, not before long, on two major components, namely grammar and vocabulary. Still, the acquisition of a new grammar rule or of a new set of words does not help students much in regarding and understanding language as social interaction. The paper takes as a starting point a questionnaire, which is filled in by students at the beginning of the academic year, consisting in ten questions approaching issues related to the significance of English language, their motivation in learning and practicing, the outcome and the advantages a fluent English speaker might enjoy in the current world. The more aware students are, the more active and responsible for their own learning they become. Besides building this sense of useful and targeted learning, the English professor is further responsible for an appropriate blending of teaching methods in order to reach the final outcome.
In an attempt to investigate the level of awareness among students on the importance of learning English as a second language, this paper aims at highlighting the role played by the foreign language professor in helping students gaining a positive attitude towards language acquisition. Teaching and consequently learning a foreign language used to focus mainly, not before long, on two major components, namely grammar and vocabulary. Still, the acquisition of a new grammar rule or of a new set of words does not help students much in regarding and understanding language as social interaction. The paper takes as a starting point a questionnaire, which is filled in by students at the beginning of the academic year, consisting in ten questions approaching issues related to the significance of English language, their motivation in learning and practicing, the outcome and the advantages a fluent English speaker might enjoy in the current world. The more aware students are, the more active and responsible for their own learning they become. Besides building this sense of useful and targeted learning, the English professor is further responsible for an appropriate blending of teaching methods in order to reach the final outcome.
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