The Impact of Teacher Education on English Teachers’ Views about Using Mother Tongues: A Teachers’ Perspective

After decades of persistent dominance of monolingual approaches in language teaching, we are now witnessing a shift to pluralist pedagogical practices that recognize learners’ mother tongues (MTs) as a valuable resource. This paper examines data from 44 questionnaire respondents and 4 interviewees t...

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Published in:	Languages
Main Authors:	Georgios Neokleous, Anna Krulatz, Yaqiong Xu
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	MDPI AG 2022-07-01
Subjects:	teacher education language teaching English as an additional language mother tongues target language
Online Access:	https://www.mdpi.com/2226-471X/7/3/196

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