Suratno, - THE DICTIONARY IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE LEARNING. -.
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Introduction People are of different opinions when they are asked what to learn in learning a foreign language. There was a time when learning a foreign language m ant learning first and foremost learning the words, that is to say a person who learns a foreign language had to compile quite a number of words and learned their meanings in terms of their equivalents in his language; and his proficiency in the language learned was judged y the number of words he knew. Although not many people now subscribe to such a concept of learning a foreign language, many people believe that a person will not go far in hi learning the language if he has only a very small number of words. He may, in a simple way, be able to speak with a native speaker in everyday situations but to the best of the writer's belief he will run out of stock, d soon he will feel that he needs more words to express his ideas. This feeling will come home to him especially when he comes to reading. It is all very well when he reads only the kinds of books that are used at school, but as soon as he plunges himself into an original piece of writing, he will find himself not up to the task. He will feel that he is lost. his stage of learning, the piece that he is reading makes him confused: H realizes that he needs to learn more words. The pr occupation with words was then abandoned and gave way to that . with structure or. grammar. A person is said to have learned a foreign language when he has mastered the fundamentals of the language automatically , that is to say, he can use.. the language in everyday situation in very limited vocabulary. This tenet has led to the emergence of a new approach which owes its existence to Fries(1945), one of the prominent advocates of what was commonly referred to by the term aural-oral approach. In its hey day the teachers paid much attention, if not too much, to structure to the neglect of words ( although the textbooks used will not give that impression when one really examines them in detail). This period produced speakers who were good at using the language with good pronunciation and were glib in every day conversation but many of them had nothing more to say when they came to serious dicussion owing to the poor mastery of words.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Subjects: | Perpustakaan |
| Divisions: | Perpustakaan |
| Depositing User: | Users 93 not found. |
| Date Deposited: | 05 Sep 2012 16:29 |
| Last Modified: | 05 Sep 2012 16:29 |
| URI: | http://eprints.uny.ac.id/id/eprint/5084 |
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