Zer dakite DBHko ikasleek gramatikaz? Subjektua eta Nor/Nork eztabaidan. Kasu azterketa
This paper describes a case study carried out in a Model D (Basque immersion) secondary classroom where students are working on a teaching sequence about grammar. The article explores the way in which the students reflect on the use of the grammatical subject in Basque. Evidence from their written responses and discourse reveals the different routes they try and the difficulties they encounter during this reflection. Amongst the most relevant findings is the students’ need to know certain grammatical terminology in order to carry out this meta-linguistic reflection. Thus the study calls into question the relevance of the terminology used nowadays in teaching certain grammatical functions in Basque (nor/nork).
Contrastive metalinguistic representations: The case of ‘Very French’ learners of English
The paper is based on experimental research. It deals with some of the linguistic and metalinguistic transfers that arise when French students learn comprehension and production in English. It analyses how part of the metalinguistic (more or less adequate) knowledge they have of French (imparfait, passe compose, passe simple) is transferred into the metalinguistic knowledge of English they are building, especially concerning simple preterite vs preterite + be + ing. These transfers do not play the same role in L2 comprehension and production. The paper analyses what kind of L1 and L2 ‘grammar’ is taught, the role of L1 as a linguistic and metalinguistic structuring filter, the nature of learners’ different metalinguistic activities, the degrees of awareness they reveal, their transferability, their fossilisation. The inefficient and often nonsensical language activity represented by the learners’ actual use of memorised metalinguistic cliches should be replaced by an accurate and comprehensible contrastiv...
A Phenomenological Study of the Wind Band Experience: Stories of Band
A PHENOMENOLOGICAL STUDY OF THE WIND BAND EXPERIENCE: