USE OF NATIVE LANGUAGE IN THE TEACHING OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE IN FAREM ESTELÍ-UNAN MANAGUA

Abstract

During the 20th century, discussions and professional and methodological debates within the English Language Teaching (ELT), assume that English is better taught and learned without the use of the student’s language. However, this assumption has been questioned, and the use of the student’s native language is being reevaluated. There are gaps in our knowledge and understanding of the extent to which, and how, the student’s own language is used within classrooms and the attitudes teachers present toward the use of native language. In the present writing, opinions of studies related to the subject, antecedents and the new theories about ELT are addressed. In the same way, the subject of the monolingual method and the bilingual method are analyzed and the teaching experience is shared, the opinion of different authors is exemplified and compared for the understanding of the subject.

Keywords: English Language Teaching, native language, monolingual, bilingual.