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Exploiting the Theory of Universals in Adult Second Language Teaching.
Kandiah, Thiru – IRAL, 1994
This article presents a bilingual teaching strategy based on Noam Chomsky's universalist hypothesis, which emphasizes the "universal" aspects of human language. The strategy focuses on the matching process that all learners carry out between the first (L1) and second (L2) language, as well as the differences between L1 and L2. (58…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, English (Second Language)