Abstract:

With the deepening of language teaching reforms the concept of language intuition is becoming more and more important to us. But so far we still have not had a satisfying theoretical definition and demonstration as to it. Starting from the opposition between conscious and unconscious mentality that is caused by the formation of language, this paper argues that unconscious mentality has an indispensable important role in activities of the whole human mind, demonstrates that language intuition is nothing but our unconsciousness of language, and explores further those expressions of intuition in students' linguistic competence and language learning.

Key words: introspectional consciousness, unconsciousness, intuition, linguistic competence, language learning