从认知心理学角度探讨母语在英语学习中的积极(7)
时间:2025-02-24
时间:2025-02-24
讨母语在英语学习中的积极作用
Introduefion
Languagetransferhasalwaysbeenlinguistics,secondlanguage
a
centralissueforatleast
a
centuryinapplied
thelast
acquisition(SLY),andlanguageteaching.Within
fewdecades.however,itsimportanceinSLAhasbeenreassessedseveraltimeswith
thebackupofdifferenttheories.Inthe1950s,itwasoftendeemed
as
themost
importantfactorintheoriesofSLA勰well
as
inapproachestosecondlanguage
seen
teaching.Inthe1960s.itsimportancewaned髂learners’crtOl'5wereevidence
of
language
transfer
but
notas
mther鹪‘'thecreativeconstruction
process.''(MichaelH.Long,inOalin).Some
theSerieseditors’prefaceofLanguguaTransferby
researchersvirtuallydeniedtheexistenceoflanguagetransferintheir
enthusiasmforlanguageuniversal.Sincethe1980s,however,amorcbalancedperspective,from
a
cognitivefl'anlework,hasemergedinwhichtheroleof舡ansferis
Seen
acknowledgedandisunderstood.
tointeractwith
a
hostofotherfactorsinways
notyetfully
Languagetransfer,inplaysinofsuch
OUr
OUr
specitkcontext,istheroleOUrmother
asa
tongue(M33
Oil
Chinese
learningEnglisttforeignlanguage.Currently,studies
whereabouts
are
a
transferwould
OCCUr
andhowitinfluencestheEnglishlearningstillvery
limitedinbothquantityandquali镑Manyofthepreviousbyold fashionedConstrastiveAnalysis,focusing
On
studies毗overshadowed
thenegativerolesofMT.This
not
approachrevealstwopoints:First,theoriesofcognitiveframeworkhave
been
serioulyintegratedinthestudies;Second,thepositiverolesoftransferhavelargelybeenignored.Bothpointssuggesttheneedtofurtha"ourunderstandingaboutthe
natureof
MTtransferinSLAwhichexertsgreatimportance
on
languageclassroom
practice.In
Or
our
EFL(English
as
foreignlanguage)context,teachersc姐neval"ignore
underestimatetheinfluenceoftheChineselanguage.Therefore,languageteachers
shouldunderstandcognitivemechanismoflanguagetransferand坨-evaluatetheduefunctionsofMTinEFL.