母语知识与外语学习

Knowledge of Mother Tongue and Study of Foreign Languages

第二语言学习与第一语言习得之间的差别主要是一种“量”性差别。导致这种差别的基本原因在于学习第二语言的成人与习得母语的儿童之间在认知能力的发展、语言学习环境、与目的语的接触、交际的需求等方面存在着各种差异。而第二语言学习中的第一语言迁移或对母语知识的依赖应当被视作人们内在的语言认知能力的有机组成部分,它是学习第二语言不可或缺的。

The difference between L2 learning and L1 acquisition is a quantitative one, which can be attributed to such basic factors as various differences between adults learning a second language and children acquiring their native language in terms of cagnitive development, the environment for language learning, experience with the target language and the needs for communication. And being indispensable to learning a second language, L1 transfer and the reliance upon the knowledge of one mother tongue in L2 learning should be viewed as integral dements of the learners＇internalized linguistic and cognitive competence.