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1、Learningaforeignlanguage:fivemostcommonmistakes发布时间:2012-12-20文章出自:英国每日电讯报原文链接:点击查看Listeningisthecommunicativeskillweusemostindailylife,yetitcanbedifficulttopractiseunlessyouliveinaforeigncountryorattendimmersivelanguageclasses.Thesolution?Findmusic,podcasts,TVshowsand
2、moviesinthetargetlanguage,andlisten,listen,listen,asoftenaspossible.LackofcuriosityInlanguagelearning,attitudecanbeakeyfactorinhowastudentprogresses.Linguistsstudiedattitudeinlanguagelearninginthe1970sinQuebec,Canada,whentensionwashighbetweenAnglo-andFrancophones.Thest
3、udyfoundthatAnglophonesholdingprejudicesagainstFrenchCanadiansoftendidpoorlyinFrenchlanguagelearning,evenafterstudyingFrenchforyearsasamandatoryschoolsubject.Ontheotherhand,alearnerwhoiskeenaboutthetargetculturewillbemoresuccessfulintheirlanguagestudies.Theculturallycu
4、riousstudentswillbemorereceptivetothelanguageandmoreopentoformingrelationshipswithnativespeakers.RigidthinkingLinguistshavefoundthatstudentswithalowtoleranceofambiguitytendtostrugglewithlanguagelearning.Languagelearninginvolvesalotofuncertainty–studentswillencounternew
5、vocabularydaily,andforeachgrammarruletherewillbeadialecticexceptionorirregularverb.Untilnative-likefluencyisachieved,therewillalwaysbesomelevelofambiguity.Thetypeoflearnerwhoseesanewwordandreachesforthedictionaryinsteadofguessingthemeaningfromthecontextmayfeelstresseda
6、nddisorientedinanimmersionclass.Ultimately,theymightquittheirlanguagestudiesoutofsheerfrustration.It’sadifficultmindsettobreak,butsmallexercisescanhelp.Findasongortextinthetargetlanguageandpracticefiguringoutthegist,evenifafewwordsareunknown.AsinglemethodSomelearnersar
7、emostcomfortablewiththelisten-and-repeatdrillsofalanguagelaborpodcast.Someneedagrammartextbooktomakesenseofaforeigntongue.Eachoftheseapproachesisfine,butit’samistaketorelyononlyone.Languagelearnerswhousemultiplemethodsgettopractisedifferentskillsandseeconceptsexplained
8、indifferentways.What’smore,thevarietycankeepthemfromgettingstuckinalearningrut.Whenchoosingaclass,learnersshouldseeka