CREATING A POSITIVE AND PRACTICAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENT—SPECIAL REQUEST FROM YOUNG LEARNERS OF SLA

• 作者: ZhouYanhong
• 来源期刊: 中国英语教学：英文版
• 学科: 教育
• 关键词: 青少年 英语教学 学习环境 语言环境 语言应用能力
• 年，卷（期）: 2004,（1）
• 页码范围: 66-68
• 页数: 3页
• 分类号: G633.41

摘要

English, a second language for most people in the world,has increasingly become the international language for businessand commerce, science and technology, and internationalrelations and diplomacy. Therefore as children will soon beexpected to thrive in the global environment of the 21st century,they are forced or encouraged to start second language learning atan early age. This brings challenge to educators, because younglearners are definitely different from adults or adolescent learnersin many aspects. In dealing with younger learners, educatorsshould provide an optimal learning environment, which at leastincludes appropriate linguistic input and appropriate languageinstruction, based on the cognitive and psychologicalcharacteristics of young learners. This paper will review some theoretical assumptions whichhave implications for SLA of young learners, consider thespecific features of young learners, and provide some suggestionsfor language instruction and material design.