These terms are indistinctly used to refer to the first language that a person learns since birth, rather than a language that is learnt through instruction at school or in adult life. In most of the cases, this is the language that speakers know best, so they feel more confident when using this language, rather than any others.
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Can a Teaching Method Guarantee Success in L2 Learning?: Study of the Factors That Intervene in the Process
Macarena Muradás-Sanromán (Universidade de Vigo, Spain)
Copyright: © 2020
|Pages: 20
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-2588-3.ch001
Abstract
In a rapidly globalizing world, the need to learn languages is more than evident. Professional growth, intercultural communication, and personal enrichment are among the great benefits they offer. Therefore, the important efforts throughout history to find a perfect method which guarantees success in language learning should come as no surprise. Nevertheless, none of the proposals has achieved desired results. Consequently, it is necessary to reflect on the following question: can a teaching method really guarantee success in L2 learning? This chapter analyzes in depth the wide range of factors which influence the learning process, in order to understand better who learns, how, and why. This new approach promotes an individualized and autonomous learning process, and the quest for a unique, infallible teaching method becomes senseless.