教学法Chapter 1 Language and__ Learning.pptVIP

Issues to be Discussed What do we believe language is? How do we believe people learn languages? How can we help people to learn languages? 1.What is language? 1.1 A linguistic answer If one looks at languages as a linguist, one sees it as a code—a set of elements which can or can not occur and which can or can not combine in various appropriate ways. Language, for a linguist, is form—sounds, letters, their combinations into larger units as words, sentences and so forth. Such a set of forms would also be expected to have meaning and the elements and sequences, by virtue of having mean