CONCEPT OF LANGUAGE LEARNING

14. Psychological Approaches to Language and Learning

Stern, H.H. 1983. Foundation Concepts of Language Teaching. London: Oxford University Press.

Presented by:

Rizky Amelia (140221807915)

Questions:

1. Is there any correlation between psychology and language learning?

2. Do you know the chronological development of language in psychology?

3. Do you know how is the psychology of learning?

OUTLINE:14. Psychological Approaches to Language and Learning a. Language in psychology Before World War I The interwar period After World War II Skinner and Chomsky The study of language comprehension and production Language acquisition in childhood

b. The psychology of learning 1. The theoretical and experimantal study of learning Skinner’s operant conditioning and the teaching machine

cognitive approaches to learning 2. The empirical study of learning in educational settings Concepts of learning in educational psychology Conclusion

Psychology Language

Language is a necessary part of psychology inquiry

Why psychology?

Diagram 1: An overview of psychology

psychology

LANGUAGE

anthropology

sociologyHow is psychology’s position?

Language in Psychology

Psychology of Learning

Before World War IThe interwar periodAfter World War II Skinner and Chomsky The study of language comprehension and production Language acquisition in childhood

The theoretical and experimantal study of learning

The empirical study of learning in educational settings

Language

Learning

Psychological

approach

Develop a language teaching and learning theory.

-SLL-LA in childhood-Language comprehension-Language Production- concepts of learning in educational psychology- etc

BehaviorismCognitivism

1. Language in PsychologyBefore WW I

±1900Interwar±1915

Skinner and Chomsky±1957

After WW II±1940

Language comprehension and production

±1960Language in childhood

±1978

one among many aspects

1. Nature or nurture2. Interaction3. acquisition

Before WW I±1900

Interwar±1915

After WW II±1940 Establish, develop, study

Diagram 2: The role of linguistics

Diagram 3: Organization of psycholinguistics

1. Shaping and reinforcement

2. Non-human organisms modes

3. Habit

4. Repetition

5. Responses and stimuli

Skinner Chomsky1. Creativeness

2. Human mind working

3. Not habit

4. Rarity

5. Habit and generalization

Language comprehension and production

Chomskyan directions

Language comprehension and

production

The use of language

Second language teaching

Language acquisition in childhood

McLaughlin (1978) points out the various ways of conceptualizing the LA process and states that it is the

total psychological and social growth in infancy and childhood.

Language Growth

Biological growth : Chomsky

Environmental influences : Skinner

2. The Psychology of LearningTheoretical and

Experimental Studyof Learning

Empirical Studyof Learning in

Educational Setting

S-R theories: Hobbes, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Pavlov, Watson, Thorndike, SkinnerCognitive approach: Koffka, Kohler, Wertheimer, Chomsky

Psychological processes

Individual acquisition of

knowledge

Teacher and curriculum builders

<< Pavlov

PAVLOV: Conditioning

WATSON: behaviorism

THORNDIKE: connectionism

SKINNER: operant conditioning

Concepts of learning in educational psychology:

a. Characteristics of the learnerb. Different kinds of learning

c. The learning process

d. Outcomes of learning

CONCLUSIONThe psychological contribution is so perpasive that there is hardly an aspect of language teaching which could not be related to psychology.

Organization of LT in education

Teaching procedures

Expression of objectives

Curriculum development

Making pedagogical grammars

Descriptive study of language

PROBLEM

Reference:Stern, H.H. 1983. Foundation Concepts of Language Teaching. London: Oxford University Press.