摘要:本文试图归纳近年来在英语教学中关于年龄因素的理论和实践的发展;评说我国所兴起的幼儿英语教学的乱象;从而提出对我国英语教学的几点反思:针对我国非英语社区实际情况进行认真的试验;认识提高英语教学所必需的环境、需要、个别差异、怎样教的问题;制定我国的语言政策和法规;从而克服这种以牟利为目标的社会乱象。
The study attempts to discuss the social disorder of starting to teach English in the kindergarten in China on the basis of reviewing the recent development of theory and practice of the age factor in English education.A few suggestions are put forth for rethinking: conducting serious experiments in China’s non-English community,investigating into the question of how to teach as well as the language environments,needs,individual differences,formulating our language policy and decrees,so as to stop the profit-making social disorder.
关键词:幼儿英语教学, 临界期假设, 误解与神话, “自然接触”条件, 多因素研究法, 语言需要, 语言政策