Language Learning Theories

MARIA JOSE QUIJADALOURDES MARIA MELGAR

Cognitive

Cognitive Linguistic is about languege, communication and cognition. Language is used to organize and process information. Learning strategies are special ways of processing information that

enhance comprehension, learning or retention of information. involves the full scope of cognition: remembering, categorization,

patterns among stimuli, generalization of conceps.

Cognitive Strategies

1. Cognitive code: emphasised that language learning involved active mental processes, that it was not just a process of habit formation.

2. Cognitive style: refers to the way a person thinks and processes information, can be compared with cognitive ability, which refers to how good a person is at thinking and processing information.

Jean Piaget Cognitive Theory

Cognitive development in a child, he believed that language was a way of reflecting a child´s thought process and that language did not contribute to thinking development.

He argued that cognitive development preceded linguistic development.

Chidren learn through their enviroment and by interacting with other people.

Children develop language by how to act and respond to different circunstancess.

Lev Vygostsky Theory

Language was a system of symbolic representation. Language came into 3 categories: social, egocentric and inner. Language was a tool wich made thinking a possibility and cognition

possible.

Behavorism

Behavorism is a worldview that operates on a principle stimuls response.

All they behavior caused by external stimuli can be explained without the need to consider internal mental states or consciouness.

The learner starts with a positive reinforcement and negative reinforcement increase the probability that the antecedent behavior will happen again.

Behavorism precedes the cognitivist worldview. Behavorism rejects structuralism and is an extension of Logical

Positivism.

Behavorism Strategies

Preview rules or behavioral expectations. Increase 'reinforcement' quality of classroom. Provide skills instruction.

Jhon Watson Theory

Was the science of observable behavior. He rejected the concept of the unconscious and the internal

mental state of a person.

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