社会语言学与外语教学

Sociolinguistics and Foreign Language Teaching

本文旨在讨论社会语言学对外语教学的影响和启示.社会语言学主要通过研究社会因素来研究语言.这种研究方式对外语教学产生了很大影响,特别是学生的交际能力的培养和通过文化和语篇进行教学等.本文首先简略讨论社会语言学的基本理论和方法;然后讨论受其影响发展起来的交际教学法、文化教学法和语篇教学法.

The present article is intended to discuss the influence of sociolinguistics and the insight it sheds on foreign language teaching. Sociolinguistics studies language mainly through the study of the social factors. This study method exerts strong influence on foreign language teaching, especially in the training of the students' communicative competence, and the teaching of foreign languages through culture and texts. First, the present article gives a brief introduction to the basic theory and methods of sociolinguistics, and then it discusses the communicative method, the cultural method and text method in foreign language teaching inspired by sociolinguistics.