外语学习的一个根本性问题:静态语言知识如何适配到动态内容?

A Fundamental Issue in L2 Learning:How to Map Static Linguistic Knowledge Properly onto Dynamic Ideas?

在语言使用过程中,人们表达的思想内容总处于动态变化之中。外语学习的一个难点,是将学过的语言知识适配到动态的内容,这是外语教学需要面对的一个语言学习根本性问题。本文分析动态内容促学外语的作用,阐释动态内容表达与语言静态操练的关系,提出解决“动”与“静”接口问题的思路,认为近年兴起的“续论”能够力促两者深度契合,有助于拆除“静态学”与“动态用”之间的藩篱,实现学用结合,促进语言学习根本性问题的解决。

In the process of using language for communication,ideas being communicated keep changing.What poses difficulty for L2 learners is learning to appropriately map language onto fluid dynamic ideas.How to get over this learning difficulty constitutes a fundamental issue that faces L2 teaching.This article sets out to analyze the role of content dynamics in facilitating L2 learning,clarify the relationship between static language drilling and dynamic expression of ideas,and suggest ways out of the mapping difficulty.Arguably,the recently developed xu⁃argument does much to shed new light on the fundamental issue,as xu makes it possible to intimately couple static L2 learning with dynamic expression of ideas.