期末论文
题目：
OnForeignLanguageTeaching
FromthePerspectiveofSociolinguistics所在学院：
外国语学院
专业：
学科教学英语
学号：
2016281020066作者姓名：
谭立力任课教师：
游长松
2017年1月15日OUTLINE
Abstract
Keywords
I.Introduction
II.TheBasictheoryandStudyMethodsofSociolinguistics
2.1TheBasictheoryofSociolinguistics
2.2TheStudyMethodsofSociolinguistics
III.SociolinguisticsandForeignLanguageTeaching
3.1CommunicativeCompetence
3.2CulturalTeaching
3.3DiscourseTeaching
3.4ContextualTeaching
IV.Conclusion
BibliographyOnForeignLanguageTeaching
fromthePerspectiveofSociolinguistics
Author:TanLiliStudentNumber:2016281020066CourseName:Sociolinguistics
Abstract:Theaimofthispaperistodiscusstherelationshipbetweensociolinguisticsand
foreignlanguageteachinganditsinfluenceandenlightenmentuponlanguageteaching.
Sociolinguisticsstudieslanguagemainlythroughthestudyofsocialfactors,whichhasa
greatimpactonlanguageteaching,especiallyonthedevelopmentofstudent’s
communicativecompetenceandonthelanguageteachingwhichcentersoncultureand
discourse.Atfirst,thispaperbrieflyintroducesthebasictheoriesandstudymethodsof
sociolinguistics;then,itpointsoutthatweshouldteachlanguageitselfanditsrelevant
socialfactorsaswell,paymuchattentiontocommunicativecompetenceandsocialculture,
andstressthediscourseandcontextualteaching.
KeyWords:sociolinguistics;foreignlanguageteaching;communicativecompetence;
culture;discourse;context;discourseteaching;contextualteaching.
I.Introduction
Therealwaysexistsmisunderstandingorconfusioninourinteractionwithpeoplewho
speakEnglishduetotheinappropriatenessoflanguageuse.Linguistsdefinethis
misunderstandingorconfusionaspragmaticfailurewhichconsistsoftwoparts:
pragmalinguisticfailureandsociopragmaticfailure.Theformerconcernstheproblemsin
pronunciation,vocabulary,grammarandlanguageskills,whichcanbesolvedbythe
trainingofbasiclanguageskills;thelatterismorecomplicatedthantheformer,which
cannotbesolvedmerelybythelanguagetrainingbecauseitisrelatedtosocialandcultural
factors,suchasculture,class,religion,age,genderandpsychology.Thesubjectofthe
studyonsociolinguisticsistherelationshipamonglanguage,societyandcultureaswellas
theprinciplesoflanguageappliedinsocialinteraction.Itis,therefore,necessarytolearn
andstudysociolinguisticssoastosolvethesesociopragmaticproblems.
II.TheBasictheoryandStudyMethodsofSociolinguistics
2.1TheBasictheoryofSociolinguisticsWeallknowthatlanguage,whichcomesintobeinganddevelopswiththeemergence
anddevelopmentofsociety,isusedinacertainsocialenvironment,andtheuseoflanguage
isinfluencedbytheusers’social,ethnicandculturalbackgroundaswellasbythesituation
inwhichspeechcommunicationsoccur.Sociolinguisticsstudiestheinterrelationship
betweenlanguageandsociety,orinotherwords,itstudiesthelanguagethroughthestudy
ofsociety.Sociolinguisticsexemplifiesastudytendencyoflinguistics.Languagestudycan
becarriedoutaccordingtothecharacteristicsoflanguageitself;thatistosaylinguistics
canbecompletelyconsideredasascience,suchasstructuralismrepresentedbyBloomfield,
anAmericanlinguist.Despitethis,linguisticsstillhascountlesstieswithotherdisciplines.
Structuralism,forexample,iscloselyrelatedtobehaviorisminpsychology,soitcanbe
seenasalinguisticsstronglylinkedwithpsychology.Besides,linguisticscanbedivided
intotwobranches:first,linguisticscloselyrelatedtopsychology,whichstudieslanguage
fromtheinsideoforganisms;second,linguisticsstronglytiedtosociology,whichstudies
languagefromamongorganisms.Butsociolinguisticsrepresentsthethirdbranchof
linguisticsstudy.
Sociolinguisticsisanedgediscipline,forwhichlinguistsalwaysdifferintheirviews
onitsresearchcontent,objectsandrange.But,Iagreewithoneopinionthatthestudyof
sociolinguisticscanbedividedintothefollowingfivekinds:
Sociolinguisticsrelatedtolinguistics:itfocusesonthestudyofspeechusedbypeople
indailylifeanditscoreproblemislanguagevariation,suchasdialectandregister.It
regardslanguageasanorderlyheterogeneoussystem,emphasizesthatthelinguisticdata
studiedmustcomefromreallife,andintendstoenrichandperfectsociolinguistics.
Sociolinguisticsrelatedtoethnology:itinvestigates,fromtheangleofethnicculture,
thelanguageusingstatusandthefunctionoflanguagetohumancommunicativeactivities,
placingparticularemphasisonthestudyoftheway,styles,characteristicsandnormsof
speechcommunication.Itscoreistostudyhumancommunicativecompetenceandits
ultimatepurposeistosetupacomprehensivecommunicativescience.
Sociolinguisticsrelatedtosociology:itisalsocalledsociologyoflanguage,whose
studyemphasisistheinteractionbetweensocietyandlanguage,whosemajortaskisto
solvethemajorlanguageproblemsfacingsociety,likelanguageplanningandthe
preservationofmothertongue,andwhosestudyresultsareoftenappliedtolinguistic
