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Keeping Native Languages in ESL Class: Accounting for the Role Beliefs Play toward Mastery
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Yough, Michael S.; Fang, Ming – Mid-Western Educational Researcher, 2010
Students' native language is a valuable resource in the English as a Second Language (ESL) classroom. Use of native languages may increase a student's sense of efficacy for learning English by: (a) facilitating vocabulary acquisition, (b) aiding learners in comprehension, (c) encouraging self-regulation, (d) making routines and explanations clear…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Vocabulary Development, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning