课堂外语学习环境中的语言迁移——以动态系统理论为视角

On language transfer in classroom foreign language learning from the perspective of Dynamic Systems Theory

课堂外语学习环境中的语言迁移受不同变量影响,具有复杂性、动态性和系统性等特点。已有相关研究在方法和内容上难以反映语言迁移的本质特征。本文基于动态系统理论探讨课堂外语学习环境中的语言迁移现象,认为动态性与系统性是语言迁移研究的哲学观和方法论,非线性与初始状态/反馈敏感性是语言迁移的外在表现,共同适应性与自组织性是语言迁移的内在机制。文章进而从研究内容和方法上为课堂外语学习环境中的语言迁移研究提出启示。

Language transfer, influenced by many variables, is complex, dynamic and systematic. Existing studies were linear theoretically and reductionistic methodologically, which could hardly reveal the nature and mechanism of language transfer. Based on the Dynamic Systems Theory, this article explores the characteristics of language transfer in foreign language classrooms. It illustrates that language transfer is characterized by dynamism and systematism in philosophy and methodology, with nonlinearity and initial-state-dependence as its external expression, as well as coadaptation and self-organization as its internal mechanism. The article further provides some suggestions concerning the contents and methods in the research on language transfer in classroom foreign language learning.