Reflections on English Teaching in Primary Schools
1. In China, English is a foreign language, not a second language, and cannot be acquired.
In China, many people ignore that English is a foreign language, not a second language, which is an important objective reason for the low efficiency of English learning.
So, what's the difference between a second language and a foreign language? Are they terms with the same concept but different styles, or are they two different concepts? How will it affect the effect of English teaching?
In fact, we know that the second 1 language is opposite to the first language, while foreign language 1 language and non-native language are opposite to mother tongue and mother tongue 1 language.
The similarities between the first language and the mother tongue and the mother tongue 1 language are as follows: (1) The earliest language is often acquired in the family environment; (2) High proficiency. Strong language intuition.
The characteristics of second language, foreign language and non-native language are: (1) is a bilingual phenomenon; (2) Being in the first language in the mastered time series; (3) Proficiency is generally inferior to that of the first language; (4) The acquisition methods are generally school education, family education or self-study.
First of all, there is a fundamental difference between a second language and a foreign language in terms of language environment. Second language learners generally have a natural language environment. There are many people whose mother tongue is this language around. For various reasons, there may be various connections between them. At the same time, because the language may be one of the official languages (such as English, French in Canada, English in India, etc. ), news media, official documents, advertisements, etc. Provide learners with a more real and natural language environment, which is generally difficult for "foreign language" learners to have.