文档介绍：SLA --- AN Introductory Course Prof. Wen Weiping College of Foreign Languages
Lecture 1 Overview
1. General definitions of language
2. Trends in linguistics and psychology
3. The study of SLA
4. Issues in SLA: Multiple perspectives
1. General definitions of language
Language is systematic and generative
Language is a set of arbitrary symbols
Language is used munication
Language operates in a munity or culture
Language is essentially human, although possibly
not limited to humans
Language is acquired by all people in much the same
way--- universal characteristics
2. Trends in linguistics and psychology
Linguistics Psychology
the structural school behavioristic mode of thinking
( 40’s & 50’s ) ( 40’s & 50’s )
generative school cognitive psychology
( 60’s ~ present ) ( recent decades)
The structural or descriptive school of linguistics
advocates: L. Bloomfield; E. Sapir; C. Fries
application of scientific principle of
observation of human languages
describe human languages
identify the structural characteristics
The generative-transformational school of linguistics
advocate: N. Chomsky
descriptive adequacy
explanatory adequacy
The behaviouristic view
focus: publicly observable responses
“scientific method”
typical behaviouristic models:
classical&operant conditioning
rote verbal learning
instrumental learning
psychological principles anization and functioning
underlying motivations and deeper structures of human behaviour
descriptive explanatory
Cognitive psychology
Linguistic-psychological Parallels
SCHOOLS OF SCHOOLS OF CHARACTERISTICS
PSYCHOLOGY LINGUISTICS
Structural
Behavioristic
Descriptive
Generative
Cognitive
Transformation
1). Linguistics
When we study human language, we are approaching what some might call the human essence, the distinctive qualities of mind that are, so far as we know, unique to humans.
----N. Chomsky
3. The study of SLA