Langage learning theories

1. Language Learning
Theories
MARIA JOSE QUIJADA
LOURDES MARIA MELGAR

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. Behavorism Strategies
 Preview rules or behavioral expectations.
 Increase 'reinforcement' quality of classroom.
 Provide skills instruction.

8. 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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