The Application of Mother Tongue in Rural High School Enlish Teaching 母语在农村中学英语教学中的应用.docVIP

The Application of Mother Tongue in Rural High School English Teaching 母语在农村中学英语教学中的应用 Abstract How to use mother tongue properly is a relatively old discipline in linguistic study. But few people study it in the condition of rural high school. Historically, the way to deal with the involvement of native language went to extremes: either excluding it or relying on it. However, in the past few decades, a trend of limiting the use of the native language has been in vogue. Approaches such as the Audio-Visual, the Functional –Notional and Communicative, etc. adopted in current English teaching also maintain that native language should be abandoned or limited as much as possible. Up to now, it has long been a controversial issue whether native language should be involved in a foreign language teaching and learning. So, according to the language transfer theory, as an extension phenomenon, transfer has two types, namely, positive and negative transfer. The former has conductive roles to play in facilitating the target language learning while the later created hindrances for learners. Although the foreign language direct teaching method is very popular today, it is not scientific for us to lump together all and ignore the proper application of the mother tongue in rural high school English teaching. In fact, it is impossible for the teachers of rural high schools to obstruct completely from mother tongue in foreign language teaching. The unitary foreign language teaching method based on the avoidance of the negative transfer of the mother tongue does not work. So the scientific utilization of the mother tongue in rural high school foreign language is important and needed to be done further research. Key words: mother tongue, Language transfer, positive transfer, rural high school English teaching 内 容 摘 要 在语言学的漫长发展史中，如何合理使用母语是一个相对古老的话题。但是却很少有人去研究在农村中学的实际条件下应如何合理使用母语。从历史上看，对于母语在外语教学中的地位问题的处理常走极端—排斥或依赖。而近一二十年来的趋势是限制母语使用，如听说法、功能法及交际法等。直到今日，外语教学中母语是否应该介入一直以来都是语言教学界争论的话题。根据语言迁移理