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===Sandwich technique===
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In foreign language teaching, the sandwich technique is the oral insertion of an [[idiom|idiomatic translation]] in the [[mother tongue]] between an unknown phrase in the [[second language|learned language]] and its repetition, in order to convey meaning as rapidly and completely as possible. The mother tongue equivalent can be given almost as an aside, with a slight break in the flow of speech to mark it as an intruder.

When modeling a dialogue sentence for students to repeat, the teacher not only gives an oral mother tongue equivalent for unknown words or phrases, but repeats the foreign language phrase before students imitate it: L2 <math>\rightarrow</math> L1 <math>\rightarrow</math> L2. For example, a [[German language|German]] teacher of [[English language|English]] might engage in the following exchange with the students:

: Teacher: "Let me try – lass mich versuchen – let me try."
: Students: "Let me try."