Ecolinguistic approach to foreign language teaching on the example of English

• Authors: Janina Wiertlewska
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

PL

The paper deals with the problem of balance maintenance of natural languages in the context of foreign language teaching. A new paradigm of foreign language teaching in the following triad: native language – global language – second foreign language is proposed. Translingualism is treated as the only means of maintaining linguistic balance between natural languages viewed from an ecolinguistic perspective.

Keywords

PL

Ecolinguistics; Robustness; Foreign language teaching; The triad; Natural language diversity maintenance

• Publisher: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
• Journal: Glottodidactica
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 37
• Pages: 141-151

Dates

published

2011-01-01

Contributors

author

Janina Wiertlewska

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Identifiers

DOI

10.14746/gl.2011.37.12