ABSTRACT

In Pountain (2017), I argued that the indispensable foundation of an academic discipline of Modern Foreign Languages (MFL) must consist of (a) acquisition of and competence in the standard form of a foreign language, (b) awareness of its linguistic structure and varieties, and (c) critical study of cultural manifestations which depend on that language (loosely, the ‘Three Ls’: Language, Linguistics and Literature), justifying this view on the grounds that attention to such matters is what makes MFL distinctive from other humanities disciplines and what provides students of this discipline with distinctive valuable transferable skills. In the present article, I look more closely at the role of linguistic analysis in language learning and in the appreciation of written and spoken culture, in particular at how students can be encouraged to engage with the language they encounter in the world around them.

摘要

在Pountain（2017）中，我认为现代外语（MFL）学术学科的必不可少的基础必须包括（a）以外语的标准形式获取和胜任能力，（b）对外语结构的认识（c）对依赖于该语言的文化表现形式的批判性研究（松散地称为“三个L”：语言，语言学和文学），证明这种观点的理由是，对此类问题的关注使MFL与众不同其他人文学科以及为该学科的学生提供独特的，有价值的可转移技能的内容。在本文中，我将更仔细地研究语言分析在语言学习中以及在对书面和口头文化的欣赏中的作用，