2007D. Carless-Student use of the mother tongue in the task-based

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1、ELTJournalAdvanceAccesspublishedDecember6,2007Studentuseofthemothertongueinthetask-basedclassroomDavidCarlessThisarticledrawsonaninterviewstudywithteachersandteachereducatorsonthetopicofthefeasibilityoftask-basedteachingforimplementationinschools.Itfocuseso

2、nasinglethemefromthestudy:studentuseofthemothertongue.Anumberofdimensionsareaddressed:theextentofclassroominteractioninEnglishinthecontextunderreview;informantsperspectivesonmothertongueuse;strategiesforencouraginguseofthetargetlanguage;andrelevantimplicati

3、onsforteachingmethodology.Theconclusioncallsforabalancedandflexibleviewofstudentuseofthemothertongue.Someavenuesforfurtherexplorationarealsosketched,inparticulartheneedtoinvestigatetherelationshipbetweentask-typesandmothertongueuse.IntroductionTask-basedappr

4、oachesseemwell-suitedforyoungadultlearners,particularlythosestudyinginESLcontexts.Insuchsettings,atask-basedapproachmayrepresentanopportunityforstudentstore-activatepreviouslytaughtstructuresandrefinelanguageoutput.Thesuitabilityoftask-basedteachingforschool

5、sseemslessclear-cut.HongKongwasanearlyadopteroftask-basedapproachesinschoolswithimplementationattheprimarylevelbeginninginthemid-1990sandcontinuingtodateinbothprimaryandsecondaryschools.Thispaper,drawingondatacollectedinHongKong,examinesanimportantissueinth

6、eimplementationoftask-basedapproaches,namelystudentuseofthemothertongue(MT).Thisisaperennialchallengeintheschoolforeignlanguageclassroom,worthrevisitinginthecontextoftask-basedteaching.MTusehaspotentiallybothpositiveandnegativeconsequences.TheMTmayusefullys

7、ervesocialandcognitivefunctions,includingtheconstructionofscaffoldedassistanceandcreatethroughcollaborativedialoguetheopportunityforlanguageacquisitiontotakeplace(AntonandDiCamilla1998;SwainandLapkin2000).Holliday(1994)arguesthatstudentsworkingingroupsorpai

8、rsdonothavetospeakEnglishallthetime;theycanspeakintheirMTaboutatextandifthroughthisprocesstheyareproducinghypothesesaboutthelanguage,thenwhattheyaredoingiscommunicative.UseofMTalsorelatestolearnerident