Learning a Second Language / the grammatical difficulties of teaching

Abstract

The Georgian language belongs to the group of Iberian-Caucasian languages whereas Ossetian is a member of the family of the Indo-European languages. There are different methods and approaches to the teaching/learning of the second language. Recently less attention has been paid to grammatical peculiarities of languages. This approach is also acceptable. On the other hand, we consider that taking into consideration grammatical peculiarities, phonetic, morphological and syntactic constructions of a language during the process of learning/teaching a second language is also necessary. Only through their usage is it possible to achieve effective and high quality results. The Ossetian language, for example, uses nominative constructions instead of ergative. Therefore, those learners of Georgian as a second language, for whom Ossetian is a native language, may face certain difficulties while learning this language. Therefore, in the process of teaching it is necessary to take into consideration these and other peculiarities of these languages, which will be discussed in this paper.