MAIN ASPECTS IN TEACHING FOREIGN LANGUAGES
Keywords:
teaching English as a foreign language, grammatical knowledge, vocabulary knowledge, word-for-word translation, cohesion errors and content knowledge.Abstract
Learning a foreign language is considered a complex and gradual process and students who want to learn it should work hard to learn different skills in practice. Writing is one of the skills which is usually ignored since most of the time, the main focus is on making the language learners able to be a good communicator of the target language. Therefore, the main goal of this paper is to investigate the problematic areas of writing which are related to coherence and cohesion of an essay, and also to give some solutions to overcome the difficulties. The problems included deficiencies in grammatical knowledge, vocabulary knowledge, word-for-word translation, cohesion errors and content knowledge.
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