CONTRIBUTION OF TRUE COGNATES TO MATERIAL DEVELOPMENT

CONTRIBUTION OF TRUE COGNATES TO MATERIAL DEVELOPMENT

Çakir, Abdulkadir

After we had discovered that there were nearly 2500 English cognates in the Turkish language and seen the facilitating role of true cognates in teaching English to Turkish students, we designed some cognate-based teaching materials. Thus, the purpose of this paper is to illustrate how we can construct cognate-based teaching materials to teach English to Turkish learners. The use of cognate-based material in Turkish classes indicates us that they not only increase the students’ motivation but also enhances their performance. Briefly cognate-based materials prove to play an extremely affective and facilitating role in teaching English. Keywords: cognate, material development, contextualize, transfer

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2014

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