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Applied Linguistics In Second Language Essay

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Applied linguistics in second language teaching is very important. I t must be taken into consideration for teachers at the time of teaching a language, all the characteristics that go with the target language as well as the ones for the mother tongue of students.
Teacher can make great use of these characteristics to contrast both languages into their lessons to help students understand similarities and differences between both languages, this can lead students to use their L1 into the acquisition of their L2.
The concepts we learned have for us as teacher great importance, however we don’t want o shouldn’t try to teach them to ours students, it is not necessary for them to know the phonetic alphabet, they must discriminate the different sounds of phonemes and we can help them to do so by a variety of techniques like modelling, the use of videos or songs where they can listen the pronunciation in context. …show more content…

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