Teaching the Romanian Conditional to Students of Other Languages

Abstract

In this presentation, I will deal with an issue in the language learning area. More precisely, I will discuss a method of describing and teaching the Romanian conditional. It is a part of a larger project, called “Theory and practice in teaching Romanian to students of other languages”, as approved by the Romanian National Authority for Scientific Research. As any language teaching and learning presentation, this paper will be split into two: ‘what’ to teach and ‘how’ to teach. The first part will cover both diachronic and synchronic issues related to the formation and use of the Romanian conditional (present conditional and past conditional). I will show the advantages and disadvantages of teaching the Romanian conditional using a grammar approach or a communicative approach. The results of my research will show which method better suits the Romanian learners, coming up, of course, with valuable detailed description that will eventually help students, teachers, as well as any other people interested in knowing Romanian or Romanian data.