Pictorial mnemonics and sound contrasting yield more effective English teaching - 0 views
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images they used linked the shapes of the alphabet letters with images of Japanese words that begin with those letters
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Evidence for pedagogic sense in involving learners' knowledge of L1 to aid their acquisition of L2. Learners associate English letters with Japanese words as a mnemonic. Also, explicit differentiation of the two language systems' phonic systems seems to help better understanding of English in Japanese children.
