Acquiring your mother tongue is an

学会母语是一个无意识的过程，就像学习走路一样，不会留下任何记忆。同样，使用这样习得的语言很少或几乎没有意识地注意其形式属性。语言就像我们呼吸的空气。我们不能没有它，但我们经常不自觉地关注它（Van Lier，1995）。不足为奇的是，我们很难描述我们凭直觉“知道”我们所讲语言的含义。甚至名词，动词和介词等基本概念，连同音素或从句，都是不言而喻的。通常，需要具有相关专业知识的人员向我们指出这些要素-使其明确。这就是语言意识：关于语言的显性知识。

获得你的母语是一个无意识的过程，就像学习走路一样，在记忆中没有留下任何痕迹。同样，使用由此获得的语言很少或没有有意识地注意其形式属性。语言就像我们呼吸的空气。我们不能没有它，但我们不经常有意识地关注它'（范利尔，1995年）。这并不奇怪，那么，我们很难描述什么是我们直观地'知道'我们说话的语言。即使是名词、动词和介词等基本概念，也并非不言而喻。它通常需要具有相关专业知识的人向我们指出这些要素，以明确这些要素。这就是语言意识：关于语言的明确知识。

Acquiring your mother tongue is an unconscious process, like learning to walk, and leaves no trace in memory. Likewise, using the language thus acquired involves little or no conscious attention to its formal properties. ‘Language is like the air we breathe. We cannot do without it, but we do not often consciously pay attention to it’ (Van Lier, 1995). It is not surprising, then that we have a hard time trying to describe what it is that we intuitively ‘know’ about the language that we speak. Even such basic concepts as noun, verb and preposition, let along phoneme or clause are not self-evident. It usually requires someone with the relevant expertise to point these elements out to us——to make them explicit. This is what language awareness is: explicit knowledge about language.<br>