美国汉语学习者汉语学习策略初探

An Analysis on American Students' Learning Strategies for Chinese Language

使用国内外流行的Oxford语言学习策略量表(SILL),对美国汉语学习者的汉语学习策略进行了研究,发现美国学生在学习汉语的过程中最常用的策略是元认知策略和社交策略,其次是认知策略和记忆策略,补偿策略和情感策略使用较少。学生性别、母语、学习环境与汉语学习策略的选择和使用有关。

After a brief introduction to learning strategies in SLA and a survey of the current studies on learning strategies for Chinese language, the author of this paper conducts an investigation with the aid of Oxford＇s questionnaire on SILL among American learners＂ learning strategies for Chinese. The data indicates that metacognitive strategies and social strategies are the most frequently employed learning strategies, following them are cognitive strategies and memory strategies; while compensation strategies and affective strategies are comparatively less used. Besides, the author also discusses the relations between gender, mother tongue, learning condition and American students learning strategies for Chinese and traces out the reasons for such a tendency.