本文将学生语言能力分为三个部分:语言认知能力、语言思维能力和语言运用能力。从基本认知能力、阅读能力、写作能力、语体表达能力、批判性思维能力等角度考察了学生语言能力的发展。本文还考察了基本认知能力与阅读理解及书面表达之间的关系,以及学生语言能力发展的影响因素。本文发现基本认知能力是语言能力发展的关键,学生语言能力的发展受到家庭、环境和学习者自身等因素的影响。
This study examines the components and developmental process of students’ language capacity. We first conducted an interview with 16 linguists about the signifi cance of fostering students’ language capacity, challenges as well as strategies to solve the problems. Then we divide students’ language capacity into three parts, namely basic cognitive ability, thinking capacity and application capacity, and investigate students’ language capacity development from the perspectives of basic cognitive ability, reading ability, writing ability, stylistic ability and critical thinking ability. We also explore the relationship between basic cognitive capacity on one side and reading comprehension and written expression on the other. Lastly the internal and external factors that shape students’ language capacity development are examined. It is found that basic cognitive capacity is crucial to the development of language capacity, and other contributing factors may include family, environment, and individual learners’ motivations.