What Foreign Language Teaching Should Aim At

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Foreign languages have been taught since the beginning of education at school. However, the goals of language education have been changed as time passed; sometimes getting information of ancient authors was emphasized, sometimes analyzing sentence structures was considered important, and sometimes the speaking ability was believed to be almost everything to acquire. Sadly, however, it has hardly been thought that goals were achieved whatever they might be. The main reason for this failure is that we do not understand the differences between mother tongues and foreign languages. In this paper, it is clarified what we should aim at in foreign language education at school.
2009-12-24