二语习得讲义_司法考试_资格考试认证_教育专区.ppt

The significance of learners’ errorsS. P. Corder ————陈兰兰 Standard works on the teaching of modern languages Dismissed learners’ errors as a matter of no particular importance, as possible annoying, distracting, but inevitable by-products of the process of learning a language about which the teacher should make as little fuss as possible The application of linguistic and psychological theory to the study of language learning Added a new dimension to the discussion of errors: people now believed they had a principled means for accounting for these errors, namely that they were the result of interference in the learning of a second language from the habits of the first language. The major contribution of the linguist to language teaching? an intensive contrastive study of the systems of the second language and the mother-tongue of the learner; out of this would come an inventory of the areas of difficulty which the learner would encounter and the value of this inventory would be to direct the teachers attention to these areas so that he might devote special care and emphasis in his teaching to the overcoming, or even avoiding, of these predicted difficulties. Teachers 1.Teachers have not always been very impressed by this contribution from the linguist 2.Because their practical experience has usually already shown them where these difficulties lie and they have not felt that the contribution of the linguist has provided them with any significantly new information. 3.They noted for example that many of the errors they were familiar were not predicted by the linguist anyway. 4.The teacher has been more concerned with bow to deal with these areas of difficulty than with the simple identification of them, and here has reasonably felt that the linguist has had little to say to him. Two schools in respect of learners errors: School 1 the occurrence of errors is merely a sign