Ltghtbown 和 Spada 在他们合著的“How Languages Are Learned”(1993,Oxford University Press)一书中,对流行的有关语言学习的十二种观点提出了不同看法,本人认为对我国外语教师和学习者颇有启发,现综述如下:一、“人们主要通过模仿学习语言”Lightbown 和 Spada 认为,看一看儿童所说的那些全新的话语,很难为这一说法找到依据。比如以下二例:“I’m hiccing upand I can’t stop.”“It was upside downbut I turned it upside right.”大量证据表 Ltghtbown and Spada, in their book How Languages ​​Are Learned (1993, Oxford University Press), put forward different views on the twelve popular viewpoints on language learning. I think that for our foreign language teachers and learners Somewhat inspirational, are summarized as follows: First, “people learn language mainly through imitation” Lightbown and Spada think, take a look at the brand-new discourse of children, it is difficult to find a basis for this statement. For example, the following two cases: “I’m hiccing upand I can not stop.” “It was upside downbut I turned it upside right.” A lot of evidence