The Psychological Comparative Linguistics in Teaching and Learning Foreign Languages

Abstract

In foreign language teaching and learning, contrastive linguistics will identify facts and phenomena that have similar functions in contrastive linguistics, but also determine their place in systems by function. The term “contrastive” is often used to refer to a method or sub-discipline of study that deals primarily with two or more languages. The purpose of contrastive linguistics is to clarify the similarities and differences or only to highlight the dissimilarities of two or more languages. Foreign language teaching and learning requires more in-depth knowledge of foreign languages than teaching the mother tongue.