Factors Affecting Foreign-Language Learning: A Consideration of Some Recent Research Findings
Factors Affecting Foreign-Language Learning: A Consideration of Some Recent Research Findings
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影响外语学习的因素：对最近一些研究结果的思考
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10.1017/s0261444800002585
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1975
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Clare Burstall
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作者：
Clare Burstall
很少有精心设计的长期研究影响儿童和成年时期外语习得的因素。奇闻轶事比比皆是，但可靠的证据却很难找到。1966年，卡罗尔回顾了过去五年对外语学习的研究，他评论说，这一领域的研究“缺乏”，并得出结论：“...我们至今还没有对那些在小学学过一门外语并在青少年和成人时期继续学习外语的人进行过值得尊敬的纵向研究“（卡罗尔，1966）。在此之前，Stern（1963）曾指出，在早期的学习阶段，社会和情感因素被认为与外语学习有关，但缺乏证据。在此之前，外语学习的研究往往集中在语言能力的测量上，忽视了动机因素的可能影响（例如Agard & Dunkel，1948; Vollmer & Griffiths，1962; Dunkel & Pillet，1962）。斯特恩认为，特别迫切需要研究可能导致儿童对外国人及其文化形成积极或消极态度的因素，这些因素可能对有关语言的习得产生有利或不利的影响。
There have been few carefully designed long-term studies of the factors affecting the acquisition of a foreign language during childhood and adoles-cence. Anecdote abounds, but reliable evidence is hard to find. Reviewing the previous five years' research into foreign-language learning in 1966, Carroll commented on the ' dearth of studies' in this area and concluded:'... we have as yet no respectable longitudinal studies of persons who have learned a foreign language in the primary school and continued its study through adolescent and adult years' (Carroll, 1966). Earlier, Stern (1963) had pointed to the lack of evidence regarding the social and emotional factors thought to be involved in foreign-language learning during the early school years. Up to that time, studies of foreign-language learning had tended to concentrate on the measurement of language proficiency, neglecting the possible influence of motivational factors (e.g. Agard & Dunkel, 1948; Vollmer & Griffiths, 1962; Dunkel & Pillet, 1962). Stern considered that there was a particularly urgent need for research into those factors which might lead to the childhood development of positive or negative attitudes towards foreign peoples and their culture, with potentially beneficial or detrimental effects on the acquisition of the language in question.