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What Are the Goals of Language Teaching?
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Cook, Vivian – Iranian Journal of Language Teaching Research, 2013
For many centuries people who speak more than one language, that is to say second language (L2) users, have been admired. In the 16th century an advisor to Elizabeth I of England said: "For even as a hawk flieth not high with one wing, even so a man reacheth not to excellency with one tongue." (Roger Ascham, "The Scholemaster,"…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Student Educational Objectives, Bilingual Education, Multilingualism