contrastive Linguistics is a course of graduate level. Usually some theories and practice are combined. Are there any new ways to refresh the students in the classroom?
Dear Ronglan Zhu,
Contrastive linguistics is a rigorous way of researching discourse within and across languages. The orientation in this type of research can be either along formal linguistics conceptual provisions or the guiding principles of functionalism envisaged by Martinet and developed by Halliday.Looking at the path along which contrastive linguistics has evolved, we can observe a tremendous growth, which is mainly oriented towards cross cultural differences existing between and among languages. The findings are motivated either by pragmalinguistic or sociopragmatic analyses of two languages based on a specified tertium comparationis. Certainly, one of the possible ways to refresh students in the classroom would be working on the linguistic directions provided by functionalism. You can refer to my own articles available on researchgate addressing the issue in full detail.
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R. Biria
Contrastive analysis is an important step and phase the teachers should proceed and apply in their classrooms particularly in the earlier stages of learning a target language. Knowing the discrepancies between languages is crucial to learn languages. Consequently, the teachers and students will be aware about the features of new languages which will pave the way to learn the new languages.
Contrastive analysis is one of best ways to improve proficiency of target language. it is more effective to help EFL to understand the register, sematics and pramatics of target language.
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Contrastive analysis can include all fields of linguistics such as pragmatics, semantics, syntax, morphology and phonology. In teaching, contrastive studies can be regarded as an approach, rather than a branch of general linguistics. Teachers can encourage students to contrast the so-called micro-linguistic and macro-linguistic features, the former comprising mainly the grammatical level and thus treating the sentence as the largest analysable unit, and the latter studying language in situation and context with emphasis on the communicative function and compare their desired languages.
Also, vocabulary items with the focus on the function of vocabulary in the socio-cultural context, investigating the lexicon of two languages with the object of contrasting them, the learners can find certain aspects that require special attention.
Check the following reference Please.. it might's assist you in your question …
https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/Documents/college-artslaw/cels/essays/secondlanguage/farooq2.pdf
Contrastive analysis is one of the major branches of linguistics by which two language systems are compared and analysed to show similarities and differences between the two languages.
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