Abstract This thesis started from China’s real foreign language teaching problems combined with the language attrition phenomenon to explore effective English teaching strategies to solve the existing teaching deficits。 All the time, researchers put their eyes only to language acquisition and rarely noticed the role of language attrition。 Based on the latest research findings on language attrition, the author summed up some enlightenment from language attrition and applied these enlightenments to the English teaching practice。 By the reviews of studies of language attrition at home and abroad, this thesis searches for the effective teaching strategies of slowing and avoiding the English attrition。76322

Keywords: language attrition; teaching strategy; English teaching

摘要 本文从中国实际教学中存在的问题出发，结合语言磨蚀现象，探索有效的英语教学策略来解决现存的教学问题。一直以来，语言学者仅仅关注到了语言习得并从语言习得中寻找提高外语教学效率的办法，很少有人关注到语言磨蚀对语言学习的影响。基于国内外语言磨蚀研究方面的最新发现，笔者归纳出一些语言磨蚀的启示，将这些启示应用到我国英语教学实践中。通过对国内外语言磨蚀研究的综合分析，本文旨在探索有效的英语教学策略来减少甚至避免语言磨蚀，提高英语学习效率。

毕业论文关键词； 语言磨蚀；教学策略；英语教学

Contents

1。 Introduction 1

2。 Literature Review 1

2。1 The definition of language attrition 1

2。2 The development of language attrition as a research area 2

2。3 The definition of teaching strategy 2

3。 Theories about Language Attrition 3

3。1 Hypotheses about language attrition 3

3。2 Influential factors in language attrition 5

4。 Enlightenment to English Teaching Strategies 8

4。1 Having a timely review 8

4。2 Having diagnostic tests frequently 8

4。3 Making language knowledge a dynamic system 8

4。4 Combining several routes of second language acquisition 9

4。5 Popularizing life-long education 11

4。6 Attaching importance to pronunciation teaching 11

4。7 Intensifying listening and reading training 12

4。8 Extending the second classroom 12

5。 Conclusion 13

Works Cited 14

1。 Introduction 

In China, English language teaching has always been paid much attention to。 From elementary school to university, not only students but also teachers and researchers devote themselves to advancing English language teaching and learning。 The effects, however, are not of our expectation。 What’s more, some colleges fail to set up English courses on the third and fourth grade succeeding the compulsory courses for the freshmen and sophomores。 Students who are not of English major hardly touch English after they have passed CET4。 Undoubtedly, after graduating from the university, these students’ ability to use English begins to slip and vanish gradually。 论文网

During a long period, researchers in English education have dedicated themselves to changing the situation in which students spend substantial time on English but attaining little progress。 Although they have achieved some fruits, their focus is just limited to language acquisition and they are unaware of the fact that languages have the property of attrition。 During English language teaching, attempting to keep the ability to use English is of equal significance to acquiring that。 This thesis is just to study the English learning in terms of language attrition and provide some insights into current English teaching strategies in China。