Editing Language education (section)

===Mother tongue mirroring===
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Mother tongue mirroring is the adaptation of the time-honored technique of [[literal translation]] or word-for-word translation for pedagogical purposes. The aim is to make foreign constructions salient and transparent to learners while avoiding the technical jargon of grammatical analysis. It differs from [[literal translation]] and [[interlinear text]] since it takes the progress that learners have made into account and only focuses on a specific structure at a time. As a didactic device, it can only be used to the extent that it remains intelligible to the learner, unless it is combined with a normal idiomatic translation.