Language Learning
Theories
MARIA JOSE QUIJADA
LOURDES MARIA MELGAR
Cognitive
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Cognitive Linguistic is about languege, communication and cognition.
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Language is used to organize and process information.
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Learning strategies are special ways of processing information that
enhance comprehension, learning or retention of information.
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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
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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.
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He argued that cognitive development preceded linguistic development.
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Chidren learn through their enviroment and by interacting with other
people.
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Children develop language by how to act and respond to different
circunstancess.
Lev Vygostsky Theory
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Language was a system of symbolic representation.
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Language came into 3 categories: social, egocentric and inner.
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Language was a tool wich made thinking a possibility and cognition
possible.
Behavorism
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Behavorism is a worldview that operates on a principle stimuls response.
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All they behavior caused by external stimuli can be explained without the
need to consider internal mental states or consciouness.
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The learner starts with a positive reinforcement and negative
reinforcement increase the probability that the antecedent behavior will
happen again.
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Behavorism precedes the cognitivist worldview.
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Behavorism rejects structuralism and is an extension of Logical Positivism.
Behavorism Strategies
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Preview rules or behavioral expectations.
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Increase 'reinforcement' quality of classroom.
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Provide skills instruction.
Jhon Watson Theory
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Was the science of observable behavior.
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He rejected the concept of the unconscious and the internal
mental state of a person.
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