Are the British Really Bad at Learning Foreign Languages
Are the British Really Bad at Learning Foreign Languages
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英国人真的不擅长学习外语吗
DOI：
10.1080/09571739885200291
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发表时间：
1998
影响因子：
2
通讯作者：
P. Meara
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文献类型：
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作者：
James Milton;P. Meara
本文报告了一项初步研究，该研究表明，英国14岁儿童的外语词汇知识仅为希腊和德国同等水平学习者的三分之一到二分之一。英国教学大纲的目标和可供正式学习的时间相对较少。英国普通中等教育证书教学大纲是否能达到教授外语交际能力的目的，这是值得怀疑的。教学大纲似乎对能力最强和最差的学习者尤其不利。
This paper reports a pilot study which shows that British 14 year olds only have one third to one half of the foreign language vocabulary knowledge of equivalent Greek and German learners. British syllabus objectives and the hours available for formal study are commensurately smaller. It is questioned whether the British GCSE syllabus can meet its own objective to teach communicative ability in a foreign language. The syllabus appears to be particularly disadvantageous to the most and least able learners.