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  2. Code-switching - Wikipedia

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    For example, the free morpheme constraint does not account for why switching is impossible between certain free morphemes. The sentence: "The students had visto la película italiana" ("The students had seen the Italian movie") does not occur in Spanish-English code-switching, yet the free-morpheme constraint would seem to posit that it can. [72]

  3. Translation - Wikipedia

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    Among the idées reçues [received ideas] skewered by David Bellos is the old saw that "poetry is what gets lost in translation." The saying is often attributed to Robert Frost, but as Bellos notes, the attribution is as dubious as the idea itself. A translation is an assemblage of words, and as such it can contain as much or as little poetry ...

  4. Communicative language teaching - Wikipedia

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    Learners converse about personal experiences with partners, and instructors teach topics outside of the realm of traditional grammar to promote language skills in all types of situations. That method also claims to encourage learners to incorporate their personal experiences into their language learning environment and to focus on the learning ...

  5. Language transfer - Wikipedia

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    Blackboard in Harvard classroom shows students' efforts at placing the ü and acute accent diacritics used in Spanish orthography.. When the relevant unit or structure of both languages is the same, linguistic interference can result in correct language production called positive transfer: here, the "correct" meaning is in line with most native speakers' notions of acceptability. [3]

  6. Homophonic translation - Wikipedia

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    Homophonic translation renders a text in one language into a near-homophonic text in another language, usually with no attempt to preserve the original meaning of the text. For example, the English "sat on a wall" / ˌ s æ t ɒ n ə ˈ w ɔː l / is rendered as French " s'étonne aux Halles " [setɔn o al] (literally "gets surprised at the ...

  7. Grammar–translation method - Wikipedia

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    The grammar–translation method is a method of teaching foreign languages derived from the classical (sometimes called traditional) method of teaching Ancient Greek and Latin. In grammar–translation classes, students learn grammatical rules and then apply those rules by translating sentences between the target language and the native language.

  8. Second language - Wikipedia

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    Spanish taught as a second language to a class of native English speakers at an American private school in Massachusetts In pedagogy and sociolinguistics , a distinction is made between second language and foreign language, the latter is being learned for use in an area where that language is originally from another country and not spoken in ...

  9. Translation studies - Wikipedia

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    Some international conferences on translation and children’s literature were organized: in 2004 in Brussels there was “Children’s Literature in Translation: Challenges and Strategies”; in 2005 in London, “No Child is an Island: The Case of Children’s Books in Translation” (IBBY- International Board on Books for Young People); in ...