语言学习的“强化理论”及其对外语教学的启示

Theory of Reinforcement in Language Learning and Its Enlightenment on Foreign Language Teaching

本文首先回顾了“强化理论”提出的背景，以及它与行为主义语言学理论的密切关系。在此基础上，介绍了“强化理论”的主要内涵及特点，同时探讨了这一理论对外语教学和外语学习的启示。作为一种语言学习和语言教学理论，“强化理论”阐述了外语学习过程中的一种规律性的内在因素，解释了语言教学过程中一种最基本的客观现象。同时，它可以使语言教师加深对外语教与学本质的认识。

This paper first reviews the background in which the theory of reinforcement was put forward, and then discusses the close relationship between the reinforcement and behaviorism. Finally it presents the main features of this theory. At the same time it explores the influence of this theory on language teaching and learning. As a theory of language learning and teaching, it probes into the internal and logical factors of language learning, and objectively explains a basic phenomenon in a language learning process. At the same time, it can help language instructors to understand well the nature of the language teaching and learning.