社会语言学框架下的儿童外语学习探讨

Child English Learning in Sociolinguistic Perspective

不少学者以二语习得理论研究儿童英语教学的有关问题。本文作者在社会语言学的框架下讨论中国儿童的英语学习,认为我国儿童在中国这样一个非英语的环境中只能是学习英语,而绝非习得英语,他们在英语的学习过程中由于缺乏一个良好的语言环境而面临着诸多障碍。

Many scholars study and guide child English learning in China by applying the second language acquisition theory. The authors of this paper intend to conduct a discussion of this issue within the framework of social linguistics holding that Chinese child English learning, in the non-English environment, is only to be considered as a foreign language learning rather than a foreign language acquisition. And the young learners, due to a lack of a favourable language context, face considerable obstacles in the process of foreign language learning.