Influence of Learner’s First Language on Second Language Development

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1、外文文献：InfluenceofLearner’sFirstLanguageonSecondLanguageDevelopmentLiuShuyan（SchoolofForeignLanguages,BeihangUniversity,Beijing100191）Abstract:Asignificantrelationcanbedetectedbetweenthefirstlanguageandthesecondlanguageandsomeresearchersmentionthatthecl

2、oserthesecondlanguageistothefirstlanguage,theeasieritis.Theeffectsplayedbythefirstlanguagedoexistduringthecoursewhenlearnersacquiretheirsecondlanguage.Therelationbetweenthefirstlanguageandthesecondlanguagehasbeenexploredinthisarticlefromtwoaspects:the

3、possibleeffectsoffirstlanguageorthographicfeaturesinfluencesonwordrecognitionprocessinginEnglishasasecondlanguageandthephonologicalsystemoffirstlanguageconstraintssecondlanguagelearners’abilityofproducethesoundofthetargetlanguageespeciallyintheearlype

4、riodoflearning.Keywords:thefirstlanguage(L1)；thesecondlanguage(L2)；orthographicfeatures；phonologicalsystem；behavioristlearningtheory.Itispopularbeliefthatsecondlanguageacquisitionisstronglyinfluencedbythelearner’sfirstlanguage.Theroleofthefirstlanguag

5、einthelearningofsecondlanguagedrawsnotonlytheattentionoftheforeignlanguagelearningresearch,butthesecondlanguageteachingresearch.Beebe(1988:15-39)pointsoutthatthereliesthesignificantrelationbetweenthemothertongueandthesecondlanguageandhearguesthatweare

6、inclinedtoassumethatthenearerthesecondlanguageistoourfirstlanguage,theeasieritis.Forexample,aFrenchmanabouttolearnItalianhasaverydifferentcharacterfromthatencounteredbyaHungarianlearnsEnglish.FrenchandItalianarecognateorsisterlanguages;EnglishandHunga

7、rianarenotevenrelativewitheachother.FrenchandItalianareverysimilarinstructure,andbyfarthegreaterpartoftheirvocabulariesbearstrongresemblances.ToacertainextentonemayconcludethatitispossibletospeakandunderstandItalianwhilethinkinginFrench.ComparedwithaF

8、renchlearningItalian,whenaHungarianstudiesEnglish,thereisnopossiblemorphologicalidentityaswellaslexisandsyntaxbetweenHungarianwordsandEnglishwords.Thelongwords,thevariousfunctionsandthegenerallackofanyrecognizablesimilaritiesbetweenthetwolangu