二语习得综述1.ppt

第二语言习得 Second Language Acquisition 教学大纲/Syllabus Objectives: Understand, Research and Career Development Requirements: Individual and Group work Total teaching hours: 32 Credits: 2 Approaches: Lectures and Seminars Assessment: Assay Writing and Presentation Readings: See the illustrative reference Overview: Issues in SLA The linguistic development of the learner in the second languages, and it is a core phenomenon involving different interdisciplinary perspectives: psycholinguistics, socialinguistics, neurolinguistics, the classroom-centered research perspectives and the bilingual education perspective. A full view of SLA: It is difficult for professors to tie them together in one course, to paint a big picture while doing justice to the details of individual research studies. It’s even more difficult for new linguists and teachers in training to read such narrow articles and see the connections. Two historical milestones in the research: 1. The Chomskyan revolution: the development of transformational-generative grammar which lets us abandon the behaviorist view of language as a set of habits and to adopt the notion that language is represented by an abstract set of rules that the speaker has internalized from the language he or she hears. 2. 1967 saw Corder’s view on language development: error analysis which helps us study learner’s systematic errors and ignore the random mistakes. Psycholinguistics: Herbert Seliger How does the learner develop their language and what are the processes involved? What is the role of previous knowledge, particular the first language, in the SL development? What are affective factors, or psychological characteristics of the learner, which lead to success? And are there good learners and bad learners? Socialinguistics: Leslie Beebe Is interlanguage variation systematic or random? And, if systematic, according to what social variables does it vary? Does the learner’s interlanguage change over time? What i