Is ‘msonge’ a house? Visualizing a novel in the L2 classroom: The case of Swahili
The concept of ‘reading without seeing’ is used in this paper to refer to a situation where an individual lacks cultural knowledge for the construction of appropriate mental images of the L2 cultural products that are encountered in a prose text. This is a common problem among L2 learners, which ine...
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| Language: | English |
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National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages
2008-01-01
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| Series: | Journal of the National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages |
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| Online Access: | http://www.ncolctl.org/files/Is-msonge-a-house.pdf |