二语习得复习提纲
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Chapter I IntroductionDescribingand Explaining L 2Acquisition
1.1Whatis secondlanguage acquisition?
Secondlanguage refersto any language that is learned subsequent t othemother tongue.
1.2What are the goals ofsecond language?
The goals of SLAareto describe howL2 acquisitionproceeds andtoexplainthis process and why some learners seem to bebetter at itthan others.
1.3Twocase studiesofL2learners
1.3.1 A case studyof an adultlearner
1.3.2 A case study oftwochildlearners
What do these case studies show us?
a. They raise a number of important methodological issues relating t ohow L2acquisition should bestudied
b. They raiseissues relating to thedescription of learner language
c.Theypoint out some of the problems researchersexperience in trying to explain L2acquisition.
1.4Methodologicalissues
What is that needs to be described?
a.Whatitmeans tosay that a learner hasacquiredafeature ofthe target language?
b.Whetherlearners have acquired a particularfeature?
c.How tomeasure whether acquisition has taken place?(Learner’soveruse oflinguistic forms.)
1.5Issues in the descriptionof learner language
a. Learnersmake errors of different kinds.
b.Learners acquired alarge number of formulaic chunks,which will influence their performancein communicationand the fluencyof theirunplanned speech.
c.Whether learners acquire the language systematically?
1.6Issues in theexplanation of L2acquisition
Item learning:formulaic chunks
System learning: rules
Internal(mentalist)account:
External account:
Chapter2 theNature of LearnerLanguage
2.1Errorsand erroranalysis
2.1.1Identifying errors
2.1.1.1Compare the learner’s language withthe normal ones.
2.1.1.2Distinguish errors andmistakes.
Definition: Errors reflectgaps in a learner’s knowledge
Mistakes reflect occasional lapsesin performance.Methods:a. Checktheconsistencyof learners’performance.
b. Ask them to correct their ownutterance.
Errors and mistakes:
2.1.2Describing errors
Methods:a.errortype oriented:
b. errormaker oriented:
Meaning: Classifying errors in these ways can helpus to diagnose learners’learningproblems at any one stageof their developmentand, also to plot how changesinerror patterns occurovertime.
2.1.3 Explaining errors
Errors are systematic, predictable,andsome of them are universal:(Learners has constructedsomekind of“rule”,albeit a rule differ ent fromthat of the target language)
Eg: omission: leave out the article “the”, leave out the–s in plura lnouns
Overgeneralization error:eated---ate
Transfer errors reflect learners attempt tomake use of theirL1 knowledge.
2.1.4 Error evaluation
Types of errors:Globalerrors: violatethe whole structureofthe sentence
Local errors: affectonly a single constituent in t he sentence
2.2Developmental patterns
2.2.1The earlystage ofL2 acquisition
Silent period: childrenmake no attempt tosayanything to begin with.
This period makes apreparation for subsequent produc tion.
Trials anderrors: Mulaic chunks: theyprovidelearners with the
means ofperformingusefullanguage funct
ionssuchas greetings and requests.
Eg:“How do youdo?”
“Myname is___”
Propositional simplification:leave words out
Eg:“Me no blue”
2.2.2The orderof acquisition
Accuracy order: there isadefinite accuracyorderand that this remains more or lessthe same irrespectiveofthelearner’s mother tongues, age, andwhether ornot they havereceive formallanguage instruction.
2.2.3 Sequence of acquisition
a. Theacquisition of a particular grammatical structure,therefore, mustbeseen as a process involving transitional constructions.
b.Acquisition follows a U shaped course ofdevelopment.
c. The process in whichlearnersreorganize their existingknow ledgeinorder to accommodate new knowledge iscalledrestructuring.
2.2.4Some Implications
a. L2 is systematicanduniversal,reflectingways inwhich interna lcognitive mechanisms controlacquisition, irrespectiveof the personalbackground of learnersorthe settings in which they learn.
b. Somelinguistic features are inherentlyeasiertolearnthan others.
2.3Variability in learnerlanguage
a.Variability is also systematic, that is, learners use their linguistic sour ces in predictableways.
b.Learners vary in theiruseof the second languageaccording to
linguistic context (George playing football/ ..all thetime)
situational context.(kids/daughter)
&psycholinguistic context (prepared/unprepared)
c. form-function mapping
d. free variation:
e.fossilization:
石化成因
任何现象的出现都不是偶然的,是可以追溯出它的原因的,二语习得过程中出现的中介语石化现象也是有着根本性的原因的。
Selinker从中介语理论的分析角度将石化现象形成的原因归纳为五个过程:母语迁移、培训转移、二语学习策略、二语交际策略和目的语过度概括。
Selinker对石化的解释更多的是石化的主要表现,而没有找出石化的根本原因。
后来,Ellis又对Selinker和Lamendella的研究作了如下总结:(1)内因:年龄因素:即当学习者达到一定的关键期,他们的大脑失去了可塑性,因而就无法掌握某些语言特征;缺乏与目的语社会文化融合的欲望:由于各种不同的社会和心理因素,学习者对接受目的语文化标准不做出努力。
(2)外因:交际压力:持续不断的交流压力要求使用目的语超出了学习者的语言能力导致石化的发生。
缺乏学习机会:学习者缺乏获得输入和使用第二语言的机会。
反馈性质:对学生第二语言使用的影响:肯定的认知回馈(表示“我明白你的话”)导致石化的发生;否定的回馈(表示“我听不懂你的话”)有助于消除石化。
应对策略
(一)增加二语的输入量
大多数二语的初学者如果得不到足够的二语的陈述性知识,就会出现语言的稳定期。
所以外语教学中,当学习者已经达到某种精通程度后,应该增加他的二语输入量。
二语的输入既要重视数量又要重视质量。
课堂教学材料要多样化,当前的许多教材应该编辑一系列激发二语学习动机的语境和篇章,如报刊文章、海报、广告等。
学生应尽可能多利用课外听、说、读写资源和任何可以增加二语输入量的机会。
第二语言的输入应该包括音位知识、语法和词汇。
第二语言知识的积累还应该包括相关的文化知识输入。
对语言迁移的研究表明学习者对语言的标志性特征比较敏感,所以某种语言的一般特征而不是可区别性特征更容易导致石化。
这样,为了避免石化,语言学习者需要比较母语和目的语的文化,找出存在于两种语言之间结构表达上的异同来减少母语的迁移。
(二)融合听、说、读、写四种技能促进自动化和认知
以认知理论对二语学习所做的分析为基础,针对我国大多数英语学习者产生石化的主要原因,并借鉴Brown的建议,针对中级学习者,我们可以适当采取综合听、说、读、写四种技巧的教学方法:第一种是以内容为中心的教学(content-based teaching),这种教学以教授某专业的内容为主,把英语作为学习该专业的交流手段,学生要想学好专业课,必须使自己的英语在听、说、
读、写等方面都达到一定的水平才能取得成功;第二种是以主题为中心的教学(theme-based
teaching),这种教学方法围绕某一能够激发学生兴趣的主题或话题组织教学。
例如英语精读课就可以围绕公共卫生、环境意识、世界经济等课题展开教学,目前在我国这种方法已被普遍采用,但由于教师的准备不够,更重要的是由于教材的编制不能满足或跟上实际需要,所以没能达到这种方法的最佳效果;第三种是以任务为中心的教学(task-basedteaching),这种方法更注重语言在实际运用中功能的实现,在课堂上语言知识的输入以各种真实的资料为主,如面试、采访、公告、菜单等,要求学习者使用所学的英语知识在实际生活中完成某一具体任务,这样就突出了语言的功能性特点。
对于高级英语学习者来说,提供真实的语境是当务之急,学习者可以通过大量观看原版英文电影、英语电视节目以及用英语写影评、日记等方式来弥补缺少真实语境的不足,另外尽可能多地和外教或本族语是英语的外国人交流并充分利用互联网最大限度地使自己接触自然真实的英语语境。
Chapter3Interlanguage
3.1Behaviorist Learning Theory
Languagelearning theory islike any other kindof learning in th at itinvolveshabit formation.
Butitis not adequateto adequatelyaccountfor L2 acquisition, since learners frequently do notproduce output that simplyreproduce in put.
Habit--stimulus--responseconnection
3.2 Amentalisttheory inlanguagelearning
❖Mainideasof thistheory
❖1.Only human beingsare capableof learning language.
❖2.Thehumanmind is equipped with a faculty for learninglanguage→Language Acquisition Device(语言习得机制).
❖3.Thisfaculty is theprimary determinant ofLA.
❖ 4. Input isneeded,but only to 'trigger' the operation of th elanguageacquisition device.
3.3 Whatis “interlanguage”?
It refers to thesystematic knowledgeof anL2 that is independent of boththetarget and the learner's L1.. A learner'sinterlang uage is a uniquelinguisticsystem.
The premises of interlanguage
❖ 1. Interlanguage is viewed as a'mentalgrammar'.(心理语法)
❖ 2. The learmer's grammar is permeable.(渗透性)
❖3. The learner's grammar is transitional.(迁移)
❖ 4. Thesystems learnersconstruct contain variablerules.多变
❖5.Learners employ various learningstrategies todevelop their interlanguage.(学习策略)
❖6.Thelearner's grammar is likely to fossilize.(石化)
1. Mental Grammar
❖The learner constructs a systemofabstract linguistic ruleswhich underlies comprehension andproduction of theL2.Thissystemof rulesis viewedas a 'mental grammar'andis referred to asan'interlanguage'.
2. Permeable
❖The grammar isopen to influence from the outside(i.e. through the input). It is also influencedfrom theinside. (i.e.omission,ov ergeneralisation)computational modelof L2 acquisition
3.Transitional
❖Learnerschangetheir grammar from one timeto another by adding rules,deleting rules, and reconstructing the whole system.
❖This results in an interlanguage continuum(连续体)
eg. Paint →paint,painting → paint, painting,painted
4. Variable
❖Some researchershaveclaimedthat the systems learners constructcontainvariable rules.That is,the learners are l ikely to have competing rules at any one stageof development.
❖Other researchers argue that interlanguage systems are homogener ous andthatvariability reflects the mistakeslearners makewhentheytryto use their knowledge to communicate.
❖ 5.learningstrategies
Learners employvarious learning strategies to develop their interlanguages.The differentkinds of errors learners produce reflect different learninfstrategies.
6. Fossilization
Selinker suggested that onlyabout5% oflearners goon to develop thesamemental grammar as native speakers.
3.4 Computational modelof L2acquisition
❖input→intake→L 2 knowledge→output↓
'Black box' of thelearner's mind=interlanguage constructed
Other waystoelaboratethis basic model
'Social context'addedto explain howthe natureofthe input varies from onesetting to another
'L2knowledge'brokenup into two or more components to reflect the d ifferentkinds of knowledge learnersconstructs.
e.g.explicit knowledge about language &implicit knowledge oflanguage(P35)
Anarrowcanbe drawn from 'output' to'input'.
Chapter 4 Socialaspects of interlanguage
4.1 Interlanguageas astylistic continuum (风格连续体)
Stylistic continuum:
a.careful style 谨慎体
b. vernacularstyle通俗体
Problems: a.Learners are not always most accuratein their carefulstyle and leastcarefulin their vernacular style.
b.the roleofsocial factors remainsunclear.
Accommodationtheory:
How social groupsinfluence thecourses of L2 acquisition.
(Convergence,divergence)
4.2 The acquisition model of L2 acquisition(儒化模式)
Social distance,psychologicaldistance,pidginization
4.3 Social identity and investmentinL2 learning
Cultural capital isneededto investin language learning.
Chapter5 Discourse Aspects of Interlanguage
5.1Acquiring discourse rules
•Discourserules referto the rules or regularities inthe ways in which nativespeakers holdconversations.
5.2Therole ofinput and interaction inL2acquisition
1. Stephen Krashen’s input hypothesis
•L2 acquisition takesplace when a learner understands input tha tcontainsgrammaticalforms thatare at‘i+1’ (are alittle mor eadvanced than thecurrentstate ofthe learner’s interlanguage) .
•L2 acquisition depends oncomprehensible input.(可理解的语言输入) •Current state: i next advancing state:i+1
2.Michael Long’s interaction hypothesis(互动假说)
•MichaelLong’s interaction hypothesisalso emphasizes the impo rtance ofcomprehensibleinput but claimsthat itismosteffective when itis modified through the negotiationof meaning(意义协商)
3. Evelyn Hatch:Scaffolding
•Evelyn Hatch emphasizes thecollaborative endeavors of the learners and theirinterlocutors in constructingdiscourse andsuggeststhat syntactic structures can grow outof the processof buildingthe discourse
4.Scaffolding(支架学习法)
Learners use thediscoursetohelp them produce utterances that they would not be ableto produce on their own.
Mark:Come here.
Homer: Nocomehere.
5.3The roleof output inL2 acquisition
•Krashen:Speaking is the result of acquisition notits cause. Theonlywaylearners canlearnfromtheir output is by treatingit as auto-input.
•Merrill Swain:Comprehensibleoutput also plays apart in L2 acquisition.
•1) To serve a consciousness-raisingfunction by helping learners to notic egaps intheirinterlanguages.
•2) Totest hypotheses.
•3) Toidentifyproblems withitanddiscussingways in which theycanbe putright.
Chapter 6 Psycholinguistic aspects ofinterlanguag e
6.1 L1Transfer
Negative transfer
Positivetransfer
Avoidance
Contrastive analysis
Speech acts
Interlangage development cannot follow a restructuring continuu m
6.2Therole of consciousnessin L2 acquisition
Schmidtargues that learning cannottake placewithout what he calls noticing.
Implicit knowledge:theresult of an automatic process
隐性知识:二语学习者能用但表达不出来的直觉知识
Explicitknowledge: the result of an effortful process
显性知识:二语学习者能意识到、能说出来的语言规则知识
❖It is perhapsself-evident that all languageusers, including L 2learners,know rules that guidetheirperformancewithoutany awareness of what the rules consist of.Theycan always reflect on this implicit knowledge 隐性知识,thus makingit expli cit.
❖It is also clear that L2learners may have knowledge abouttheL2(i.e. explicit knowledge 显性知识)butbe unable tousethis knowledge in performance without conscious attention.
6.3 Processing operations
Operating principles
➢The study of the L1 acquisition of many differentlanguages hasled to the identification ofanumber of general strategieswhich chi ldren use to extract and segmentlinguistic information from the lan guage they hear.
➢Examples: avoid interruption
rearrangement of linguisticunits
avoid exceptions
Multidimensional model
➢This theory sought to accountfor both whylearnersacquirethe gr ammar ofalanguage in a definite orderand alsowhy somelearnersonlydevelop very simpleinterlanguage grammars.
➢Itdistinguishesadevelopmentalandavariational axis.
Processingconstraints
6.4 Communicationstrategies
➢Avoid problematic items
My brother made me togive him some money.
➢Borrowaword from L1
➢Useanother target-languageword that isapproximate inme aning
➢Paraphrasethe meaning of word
➢Construct an entirelynew word
Psycholinguisticmodels toaccount for the use of communication strategies
For example:Claus Faerchand Gabriele Kasper proposed amodel of speech production.
6.5 Two typesofcomputationalmodel
Serialprocessing: 串行处理
Information is processedin a series of sequential steps and
results intherepresentationof whathas beenlearnedas s
ome kind of ‘rule’ or‘strategy’
Paralleldistributedprocessing: 并行处理
Learnerswiththe abilitytoperforma numberof mental
tasks at thesame time
Chapter 7linguistic aspects ofinterlanguage
7.1Typological universals: relativeclause
当代类型学是从微观的视角研究语言各个层面的类型特征与共性,通过对大量语言的观察,统计和对比,从中发现语言的普遍规律和形成这些规律的普遍性制约因素,并探究其形成动因,以解释和预测语言可能具有的变化模式,从而揭示语言发展变化的本质。
当代类型学理论中的“标记性”,“蕴含共性”和“语法层级”对二语习得研究产生了巨大的影响,开启了基于类型学理论的二语习得研究路径。
7.2Universal grammar
Chomsky arguesthat language is governed by aset of highly abstractprinciplesthat provide parameters which are given particular setti
ngs in different language.
7.3Learnability
Chomsky has claimed that children learningtheir L1must rely oninnate knowledgeoflanguage because otherwise thetaskfacing t hem isan impossible one.
His argument is that the inputtowhich children are exposed is insufficientto enablethemtodiscover the rules of the language theyare trying to learn. Thisinsufficiency is referred to as the poverty ofthe stimulus.
7.4The criticalperiod hypothesis(语言学习关键期假设)
Thecritical period hypothesis states thatthereisaperiodduring which language acquisitionis easy and complete (i.e.native-speakerability is achieved) andbeyond whichit is difficult and typicallyincomplete.
7.5AccesstoUG
1.Complete access
2.No access
3. Partial access
4.Dual access
7.6Markedness
The degree ofmarkednesscorrelates with theorder ofacquisition. (可标记等级与语言习得顺序是相关的)
一对语言特征包括两个对立体: 有标记的和无标记的。
无标记成分:常见的,意义一般的,分布较广的。
有标记成分:反之。
7.7Cognitiveveruslinguisticexplanation
如何看待这些语言学解释呢?alternative?complementary?
Itdepends on whether linguisticuniversals and markedness areseen asexertinga direct effect on L2acquisition orwhether the linguis ticuniversals and markedness are seen as exerting a direct effect onL2 acquisition.
Chapter 8Individual differences in L2 acquisition (从心理学角度探究二语习得的差异)
The degree of anxiety they experience and their preparednesstotake risks in learningand using L2.
8.1Languageaptitude
1. 音位编码能力Phonemic codingability
2.语法敏感度Grammaticallanguage learning ability
3.归纳能力Inductive languagelearning ability
4.机械学习能力Rote learning ability
8.2Motivation
1.Instrumental motivation 工具型动机
2. Integrativemotivation融入型动机
3. Resultative motivation结果型动机
4. Intrinsic motivation 本能动机
学习过程中,四种动机相辅相成
(1).They are complementary rather thanas distinct andoppositional
(2) Motivation isdynamic in nature.
8.3Learning strategies
The particular approaches or techniques that learners employ to try t olearn an L2
They can be behavioral:like repeating new words aloud tohelp yourememberthem.
They canbe mental:like, usingthe linguistic orsituational context to infer the meaning of anewword.
1. 认知策略Cognitive strategies:个人学习时在心理上运用他以前学得的知识经验,凭经验去辨别,选择,思维,分析,归纳,从而获得新知识的一个方法
Cognitive strategies arethose that are involved in the analysis, synt hesis, or transformation of learningmaterials.
eg:Recombinationwhich involvesconstructing a meaningful sent ence by recombining known elements of theL2 in a new way.
2. 元认知策略Meta-cognitivestrategiesare those involved in pla
nning, monitoring and evaluating learning.
eg:selective attention(选择注意)where the learner makesa co nscious decision to attend to particular aspects of theinp ut
元认知策略:主体将自己的认知过程最为认知和意识对象,并对认知活动的全过程进行不断地,自觉地监控和调节的执行策略。
3. 交际策略/情感策略
Social strategies/affectivestrategies concern the waysinwhich learners chooseto interact with other speakers.
eg:questioning for clarification(i.e. asking for repetition, a paraphrase, or an example.
交际策略/情感策略:与别人合作交往的策略
Which strategies are important for L2acquisition?
①Successful learners pay attentiontoboth form and meaning.
②Good language learners are also very active(i.e. theyusestrategies f ortaking charge of their own learning)
③Theyalsoshow awarenessof three learningprocess and their own personallearning styles and,are flexible and appropriate in their use of learning strategies.
Otherstudies:
①Successfullearners use morestrategies thanunsuccessful learners.
②Different strategies are relatedto differentaspectsof L2learn ing.
③Successfullearners may also call on different strategies atdifferent st ages oftheirdevelopment.
Strategies involveformalpractice形式操作策略contributeto thedevelopmentoflinguisticcompetence, like rehearsing anewword.
Strategies involving functionalpractice功能操作策略aidthe development of communicative skills, likeseeking out native speakers to talk to.
Chapter9 Instruction and L2 Acquisition
9.1Form focused instruction
Doesit work?
How significant the effectsof instructions actuallyare?
Teachabilty hypothesis可教性假说
1.取决于教学的本质。
2.取决于目标结构的本质。
3.只有在学习者拥有持续的听,用,目标语的时候才有用。
What kind of form-focused instruction works best?
1.DistinctionbetweenProduction based instructionand Input based i nstruction
2. consciousness-raising
9.2Learning–instructionmatching 因材施教
9.3Strategy training策略训练
Chapter10 Multiple perspective in SLA
1.Thereis no single metaphor that canencompass all the metaphorsthat SLA has drawnon to expl ain how learnersacquire an L2.
2. Someoneargue that SLA needs to engage inthec areful eliminationof theories to demonstrateits maturity as a discipline.
Othersargue thatL2 isahighlycomplex phen
omenonand that, therefore, multiple theoriesare both inevitable and desirable.
3.1 Some researchers have been primarily concerned withlanguage pedagogy and haveseen SLA ascontributing tomore effectivelanguage teaching.
3.2 Othershave seen more concerned with linguistics and haveseen SLA as a way oftesting hypothesisabout the nature of language.
3.3Still others have been concernedwiththesociologyof multilingualcommunities and areinterested in SLA because itserves to illustrate howsocial context affects andis affected bylanguage.。