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Old 19-Aug-2005, 15:38
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Default Re: benefits of using in L2 teaching ?

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Originally Posted by tdol
In a monolingual class, L1 can help students make a transition, especially if they come from a very different language family, or have different cultural or educational backgrounds.

i totally agree with you but would using the L1 hinders or restricts the development of the learning process and to what extent can we take the use of L1 as an advantage and not as an obstecal..

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