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1、JournalTitle:FirstandSecondLanguageCall#:P118.F541987AcquisitionProcessesLocation:Alden7thFloorVolume:Issue:Item#:Month/Year:1987Pages:191-205ArticleAuthor:ELECTRONICDEL:ArticleTitle:Aconcept-orientedapproachtosecondlanguagestudiesCUSTOMERHASREQUESTED:Imp
2、rint:jintingCaiUc644512)363RichlandAve.APT350Athens,OH45701CHAPTER9AConcept-OrientedApproachtoSecondLanguageStudies1ChristianevonStutterheimInstitutforDeutschalsFremdsprachenphilologieHeidelberg,FederalRepublicofGermanyWolfgangKleinMax-PlancklnstitutfurPs
3、ycholinguistikNijmegen,TheNetherlands1.INTRODUCTIONForsometime,secondlanguageacquisitionresearchhasbeenprimarilyconcernedwiththeemergenceofspecificlinguisticforms-lexicalitems,grammaticalmorphemes,syntacticconstructions-which,likeflowersinthespring,wereob
4、servedtocropupinacertainorder,providedthattherewasenoughrainandsunandthesoilwassufficientlyfertile.Increasinginsight,ontheonehand,andtheunforeseeablemeanderoflinguisticfashionontheotherhasrecentlyledmanySIAresearcherstocastoffthisapproachandtoreplaceitbya
5、perspectivewhichismore"functionaV'more"cognitive,"whichshiftsinemphasisfrom"product''to"process"andlooksintothecommunicativeaspectsofthedevelopmentandusageoflearnerlanguages.ForfurtherdiscussionseePfaff(thisvolume).Wesharethisview.Butclearlyitdoesnotsayve
6、rymuchtocallanapproach"functional"-infactitsaysnomorethanthatalanguagecannotbeanalyzedwithoutalsotakingitsfunctionsintoaccountThequestiontheniswhatweshouldunderstandby"functions,"andapparentlyauthorshavequitedifferentideasaboutthelevelonwhichthesefunction
7、shavetobelocatedToquotejustthreeexamples:•Littlewood(1979:125)developsafunctionalmodelwhichshouldbeabletoprovidefor"anaccountoflanguageswhichissufficientlyflexibletoallowhumanfactorstobediscussed"Atthislevelofgeneralitythecreationofnonfunctionalmodelsseem
8、storequiresomeinventiveness,whichdoubtlesswasshownbyvariousauthors.•Thereisamuchnarrowerusageoftheterm,forexample,inBates(1981),whotalksaboutthecommunicativefunctionoflanguages.Thisusageis191192FIRSTANDSECONDLANGUAG