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Thelinguistic learning theoryof language development comes from the work of Noam Chomsky, an American linguist who is also regarded as the initiator of modern cognitive science. Chomsky's linguistic theory is based on the idea that people are born with an innate ability to learn a language. He...
Major Theories of SLA IBehaviourism Skinner,proposed this theory in1957 inVebal Behaviourism. The central claim:There is no distinctive innate language learning capacity,language acquisition is the result of a series of behaviourismresponses.It is initially proposed for FLA. Skinner’s claim forVebal...
abandonedSkinner’stheoryofVerbalBehavior(1957) learningoccursbyoperantconditioning; aresponseoroperantismaintainedbyreinforcementfromanotherperson; verbalbehavioriscontrolledbyitsconsequencesTheorydoesnotadequatelyaccountfor Thehumancapacitytoacquirelanguage Languagedevelopmentandlanguagecreativity Theabstractnatureoflanguage...
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In an effort to render linguistic meaning public and the study of linguistic meaning more “scientific,” the American psychologistB.F. Skinner(1904–90) proposed that the correctsemanticsfor a naturallanguageisbehaviouristic: the meaning of an expression, as uttered on a particular occasion, is ...
Skinner's book on verbal behavior (see above), Chomsky (1959) charged that behaviorist models of language learning cannot explain various facts about language acquisition, such as the rapid acquisition of language by young children, which is sometimes referred to as the phenomenon of “lexical ...
Different descriptions of language lead to the different methods to learn languages. Views on language learning Behaviorist theory Important representative figure: Initiated by Skinner斯金纳: American behavioral psychologist—based on the “Theory of Conditioning”. Cognitive theory Important representative figur...
1. Piaget’s Theory of Cognitive Development Jean Piaget Piagetis an interesting character in Psychology. His theory of learning differs from many others in some important ways: First, he focuses exclusively on children; Second, he talks aboutdevelopment(notlearningper se) and Third, it’s a st...
1. Research on language learning 2. Common views on language learning and learning in general (1)Behaviorist theory (2)Cognitive theory (3)Constructivist theory (4)Socio-constructivist theory Ⅳ. Qualities of a good language teacher Ⅴ. Development of a good language teacher ...