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1、HowIsaLanguageLearned?Forlanguagelearners,itisnoteasytolearnalanguagewithoutagoodenvironment.Forexample,inthisessay,theauthorandhis/herfriends“think”theyhaveknownEnglish.WhenarrivedinLondon,theycannotunderstandasinglewordofnativespeakers,eveniftheyhave
2、translatedabookfromEnglishintoRussian.Theycanreadwithoutdifficulty,buttheycannotspeakEnglish.TheylearnEnglishunderthenon-linguisticcontext,andtheyunderstanditintheirownways,evenhavingnoknowledgeofwhatisthereallanguage.Therefore,undertheEnglishenvironme
3、nt,itiscertainthattheycannotcomprehendwhatarethenativespeakerstalkingabout.Fromthisessay,wecandrawaconclusionthatlanguagecontextisveryvital.Thereisnodoubtthatagoodlanguageenvironmentmakeslanguagelearningeasier.However,howtolearnalanguagewithoutthecorre
4、spondingcontext?Sometimes,becauseoftheeconomicfactors,notallthelanguagelearnershaveopportunitiestolearnalanguageunderthelinguisticcontext.Forexample,inChina,therearemillionsofstudentslearningEnglish.HowisEnglishlearnedforthosewhohavenoopportunitytogoab
5、road?CombiningwithwhatIhavelearnedfromthisclass,Iwillgivemysuggestionsmainlyfromteachingaspects.IwillelaboratehowisEnglishlearnedfromlistening,pronunciation,vocabularyaspects.Inmyopinion,listeningisanessentialstepoflearningalanguage.Imitatingnativespea
6、kers’pronunciationisthesecondcourseoflearning.Vocabularyisbasisofalanguage.Therefore,Iwillgivemyanswerfromthese3aspects.First,listeningisextremelyvitalintheprocessoflearningalanguage.ForthosewhohavenoaccesstoentertheEnglishlanguagecontext,listeningtota
7、pesisquiteagoodwaytoimprovelisteningskills.However,listeningtotapesismuchmoredifficultthanlisteningtoanativespeakerface-to-face.Therearemanyreasonsforthis---sometodowiththetechnicalchangesinsoundmadebythemachine,somemuchmorestraightforward---youcannots
8、eethespeaker’sfacialexpression,orwatchlipmovements,andmostimportantlyofall,youcannotinterruptandaskforarepeatorclarification.Allthesereasonsmakelisteningdifficultandextremelydemanding.Then,howtoimprovelisteningskillsbylisteningtotapes?I