回顾自己十几年英语学习历程,印象最深的是自己刚上大一时查字典,背单词的苦难历程。那时候每篇课文的生词少则五、六十,多则200,真是痛苦不堪,大呼上当受骗,不该上这贼船。可是那时候记的单词,现在还能记住的有一半就不错了。不过等我读到新概念作者亚历山大的解释,终于明白自己的问题在哪里了。
Leaning a language is not a matter of acquiring a set of rules and building up a large vocabulary. The teacher’s effort should not be directed at informing his students about a language, but at enabling them to use it. ――节选自新概念英语教程前言(作者:亚历山大 何其莘)
“学习一门语言,不仅仅是掌握一套规则,积累大量词汇。教师工作的重点不应该是告诉学生关于一门语言的知识,而应是使学生能够使用这门语言。 ”
看来我们很多人都走入了语言学习的第一误区:盲目地背了很多单词,但是却不知道怎么用。结果这些单词就像在我们的短时记忆空间里的匆匆过客,根本没有掌握。掌握一门语言在于如何熟练使用,而不是简单地累加单词。实际上,老外使用英语时,不是单词的累加,而是以句子为基本单位。正如亚历山大所说:
In order to become a skilled performer, the student must become proficient at using the units of a language. And the unit of language is not, as was once commonly suppose, the word, but the sentence. Learning words irrespective of their function can be a waste of time, for not all words are equal.
――节选自新概念英语教程前言(作者:亚历山大 何其莘)
“学生要想成为熟练的语言运用者,就必须能够熟练地使用语言单位,而语言单位并不是人们曾经普遍认为的单词,而是句子。”
看来,我们又陷入了另一误区,就是忘记了背一堆单词并不能使你英语说的流利,君不看有多少过GRE单词的老兄说出英语来让人匪夷所思的。但有的培训机构却是狂讲单词,一个劲地引申,却全然忘记了这条规律,然而这样的学习方法与我们传统方法相差太大,很多学生可能一时无法接受,所以新概念编者将每一个单词都放到特殊的语境下,就是一个故事或文章,让大家先彻底理解,再运用。
Learning words irrespective of their function can be a waste of time, for not al words are equal…Words like I, You, he are structural. Their use can be clearly defined; they are part of a grammatical system. Words like tree, plant, flower are purely lexical items and in no way part of a grammatical system. From the learner’s point of view, skill in handling structural words is the key to mastering a language, for the meaning that is conveyed in sentence-patterns depends largely on the function of the structural words that hold them together.
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