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Anonymous Posted 13 years ago
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What could be surprising is that learning deceptive cognates can be more difficult that learning new vocabulary. In fact acquiring completely unknown words is easier than false friends.
If teachers want to reduce students’ problem with deceptive cognates they should pay more attention to meaningful teaching of these words. The best way of doing that is to teach (or teaching?) false friends in context.
If teachers want to reduce students’ problem with deceptive cognates they should pay more attention to meaningful teaching of these words. The best way of doing that is to teach (or teaching?) false friends in context.
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) false friends in context. Either one. I prefer 'to teach', maybe because it's advice.
- ) false friends in context.
- Either one.
- I prefer 'to teach', maybe because it's advice.
- CJ
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AnonymousThe best way of doing that is to teach (or teaching?) false friends in context.Either one. I prefer 'to teach', maybe because it's advice.
CJ
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What could be surprising is that learning deceptive cognates can be more difficult that learning new vocabulary. (than)
If teachers want to reduce students’ problem with deceptive cognates they should pay more attention to the (optional, but I prefer the article here) meaningful tea
If teachers want to reduce students’ problem with deceptive cognates they should pay more attention to the (optional, but I prefer the article here) meaningful tea
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AnonymousThe rest is correct?I didn't say that. Here's my version.
What might be surprising is that learning deceptive cognates ("false friends") can be more difficult than learning other vocabulary. In fact, learning words completely unrelated to known words is easier than learning false friends.
If teachers want to reduce students’ prob
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