China-Oriented Second Language Learning and Acquisition
Abstract
This paper first glances at the remarkable phenomenon of second language learning home and abroad, and raises the unsettling issue of many learners eventually getting unsuccessful or unsatisfactory learning results. With the aim of presenting whoever concerned, especially second language teachers, basic and professional knowledge and helping give them good insights into the issue and more, it purposefully provides certain practical knowledge of language and its properties, and also second language acquisition theories from mainly behaviorist, innatist, and interactionist perspectives, which are particularly seen in regard to those on second language teaching and learning in China. It then progresses to considerable variables or characteristics that greatly influence the success of language learning before it finally arrives at the conclusion of the paper.References
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