FYI: Latest Developments in L1-Driven L2 Teaching

Author:	Ziyuan Yao
Linguistic Field(s):	Applied Linguistics Translation Language Acquisition
FYI Body:	Latest theories, systems and designs of native language-driven foreign language teaching Dear All, I'm pleased to release a document studying theories, systems and designs of native language-driven foreign language learning. Key points: ''L1-driven L2 teaching'' is a method which lets a browser extension insert foreign language micro-lessons into the native language Web page you're browsing. It can be further divided into two paradigms: (1) ''Topic-oriented teaching'' is to insert foreign language micro- lessons relevant to the topic of the Web page you're browsing. (2) ''Word-oriented teaching'' is to insert foreign language micro- lessons, each specifically targeting a certain word of the Web page you're browsing. Obviously, word-oriented teaching will involve word sense disambiguation (a technique in natural language processing and machine translation), while topic-oriented teaching doesn't. Both will be the future of second language teaching. Read the complete document: https://docs.google.com/viewer? a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnx5YW96aXl1YW58Z3g 6MWVlYmY5NTU1Y2JjZTI2 Best Regards, Ziyuan Yao https://sites.google.com/site/yaoziyuan/