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Teaching languages: Language awareness
This unit explores phonic and historical connections between languages and suggests how...
This unit explores phonic and historical connections between languages and suggests how such knowledge might be used when teaching MFL.
After studying this unit you should:
- have developed a greater awareness of the phonic and historic connections between the vocabularies of the target language and English and other mother tongues of students;
- be able to demonstrate how and where to use students' knowledge of English and other languages when introducing new target language vocabulary and when developing students' reading skills.
- Duration: 12 hours
- Published on: Wednesday 27th July 2011
- Level: Intermediate
- Posted under: Education
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Teaching languages: language awareness
Introduction

This unit explores phonic and historical connections between languages and suggests how such knowledge might be used when teaching modern foreign languages (MFL).
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