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读书笔记—Second Language Acquisition(Rod Ellis, 上海外语教育出版社)

2006-12-03 20:15:41

这本书用简洁的语言概述了第二语言习得的研究状况,通俗易懂,对于刚入门的读者

来说会有很大帮助。我认为该书在编排上最大的优点是在书的末尾有与正文有关的一些小

案例,可以帮助读者更好的理解和掌握作者在书中讲到的理论。在读完这本书后,我自己

感觉收获颇丰。

——Second Language Acquisition(Rod Ellis, 上海外语教育出版社)

1. What’s ‘Second Language Acquisition’?

1) Introduction: describing and explaining L2 acquisition

L2 is fairly a recent phenomenon, belonging to the second half of the

twentieth century. ‘L2 acquisition’ can be defined as the way in which people

learn a language other than their mother tongue ,inside or outside of a

classroom, and Second Language Acquisition (SLA) as the study of this.

2) What are the goals of SLA?

In general, SLA has not focused on the communicative aspects of language

development but on the formal features of language that linguists have

traditionally concentrated on. One of the goals of SLA description of L2 acquisition.

Another is explanation : identifying the external and internal factors that account

for why learners acquire an L2 in the way they to . One of the external factors is the

social milieu in which learning takes place. Another external factor is the input that

learners receive, that is , the samples of language to which a learner exposed.

The internal factors are as follows: (1) Learners possess cognitive mechanisms

which enable them to extract information about the L2 from the input ;(2)L2

learners bring an enormous amount of knowledge to task of learning an L2;(3)

L2 learners possess general knowledge about the world which they can draw on to

help them understand L2 input; (4) L2 learners possess communication strategies

that can help them take effective use of their L2 knowledge.

The goals of SLA , then , are to describe how L2 acquisition proceeds and to

explain this process and why some learners seem to be better at is than others.

2. The nature of learner language

1) The main way of investigating L2 acquisition

The main way of investigating L2 acquisition is by collecting and describing

samples of learner language . The description may focus on the kinds of errors

learners make and how these errors change over time, or it may identify

developmental patterns by describing the stages in the acquisition of particular

grammatical features such as past tense, or it may examine the variability found in


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