二外习 UNIT3 SLA.pptVIP

Unit 3 Contrastive Analysis CA: the comparison of the linguistic systems of two languages, eg. the sound system or the grammatical system. It was developed and practiced in the 1950s and 1960s, as an application of structual linguistics to language teaching. Language Typology Isolating Language (analytic language): a language in which word forms do not change, and in which grammatical functions are shown by word order and the use of function words. Language which are highly isolated include Chinese and Vietnamese. Synthetic Languages Inflecting Language( also fusional language):