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On Language Thought and the Formation of Foreign language Thought in SLA

Shandong Foreign Languages Journal (2003)

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Abstract

Language and thought play a very important role in second language acquisition. Thinking in mother tongue or in target language greatly affects the effectiveness of learning and language communication. This paper probes into the relationship between language and thought and how it functions in second language acquisition and communication by comparing the difference between the English language and Chinese language, and how to form the thought in target language.

Topics

EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning 0.97 Second Language Learning and Teaching 0.92

Field: Arts and Humanities · Subfield: Language and Linguistics

Keywords

Comprehension approach,Second-language attrition,Developmental linguistics,Linguistics,Second-language acquisition,First language,Language transfer,Psychology,Foreign language,Language acquisition