PROBE INTO THE ROLE OF ANGLO-AMERICAN LITERATURE READING IN SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION

• 来源期刊: 中国应用语言学：英文版
• 学科: 文学
• 年，卷（期）: 2001,（1）
• 页码范围: 20-23
• 页数: 4页
• 分类号: H319.3

摘要

Traditionally, literary reading is regarded as a practicalmeans to stimulate the interest of EFL students in their study ofEnglish to accelerate the development of their L2 acquisition;literary works are considered a prime resource of linguistic inputto heighten the quality of learners’ target language. Yet, the re-search findings from this study indicate that such linguistic inputcannot effectively benefit the English majors when their L2 is notwell developed to cope efficaciously with such readers. In addi-tion, research findings also indicate that many literary wordsand phrases related to another cultural and social background notonly intensify the obstacles to proper comprehension but alsolimit opportunity for practical application of this sort of linguis-tic input in the social milieu where the learners live. Therefore,how to cope with literary works in language learning and whatsort of linguistic input that can effectively stimulate the develop-ment of learners’ L2 acquisition in their own social environmentneed to be explored.