%0 Journal Article %T Utilizaci¨®n del idioma nativo en las clases de lenguas extranjeras %A Yance Ram¨ªrez %A Luis Leonardo %A Rodr¨ªguez Espinosa %A Emilia %A Leyva Valero %A Fabiola %J Educaci£¿3n M£¿£¿dica Superior %D 2011 %I Editorial Ciencias M¨¦dicas %X the authors of this paper reviewed some facts and offered some opinions and experience of outstanding experts, in addition to their own pieces of experience after a number of years devoted to teaching english as a second language, in order to give answers that might be conclusive for very usual questions in this type of education: what is the role of the mother tongue in english teaching as a second language? how could the mother tongue be used in a productive way? do the beginners really need the mother tongue in their english classes? some useful experience in using the mother tongue as a pedagogic technique for better understanding of the foreign language by the students was analyzed. %K foreign language %K mother tongue %K pedagogic technique. %U http://scielo.sld.cu/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0864-21412011000100011&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en