%0 Journal Article %A Blanco Gómez, María Luisa %A Henderson Osborne, Rosalie %T Linguistics and Language Teaching. Friends or Foes %D 2000 %U http://hdl.handle.net/10017/948 %X This paper attempts to analyze the relationship between linguistics and language teaching, pointing out how linguistics may facilítate the teacher's understanding of the workings of the language and, consequently, the process of explaining that language to the student. We intend to demónstrate that highlighting frequent translation errors, related to vocabulary, word-order, word-formation, etc., and their subsequent correction in class, contributes to an improved language awareness on the part of our students %K Humanidades %K Humanities %K Filología hispánica %K Spanish philology %~ Biblioteca Universidad de Alcala