LA Theories

LA Theories

“Cognitive approaches to psychology emphasise the learner’s cognitive involvement in learning”

Behaviourism

“Shaping children’s learning (rewards and punishments)”

Constructivism

“Individual’s search for personal meaning”

Poll

Piaget’s theory mainly focuses on what is learned?

• True : Learning is the result of experience

• False: What matters to cognitive schools is the process of learning

Multiple Select

What is assimilation and accommodation?

• Assimilation is when you get knowledge by practice

  Accomodation is when you use knowledge

• Assimilation stands for undestanding the incoming information Accomodation stands for teaching new knowledge

• Assimilation is when you modify information to what you already know.

  Accomodation is when you modify information you alredy know to get new one

Multiple Choice

Central aspects language teachers should take into account

• 1) Student's status

  2) Number of hours

  3) Number of tasks

  4) Salary

• 1) Learner as an individual

  2) Development of thinking

  3) Tasks for for each level

  4) Assimilation and Accomodation

• 1) Cognitive level

  2) Agency

  3) identity

  4) Number of hours

Open Ended

Why would a given curriculum or syllabus be shaped inevitably by a teacher?

Humanistic approaches

“Whole-person involvement in learning”

Multiple Choice

What is the humanistic approach mainly about?

• Language is internalized by the passive learner and repeteated

• Thought, feelings and emotions represent human development

• Language learning is an individual process

Multiple Choice

According to Rogers, what is a significant learning experience?

• When it is perceived as of personal relevance

• When you can use the knowledge leanred

• When you can learn whatever you want

Open Ended

What are some language teaching methodologies born from the humanistic approach and how they relate to each other?

Multiple Choice

What are some implications of the humanistic approach?

• Money, relatioships, status

• Autonomy, free interaction, own contributions to learning

• Context, identity, needs, choices

Social interactionism

“ Learning' occurs through interaction with other people.”

Multiple Select

What is mediation?

• Relationships among students with knowledge

• Relationships among teachers with strategies

• Relationships between teacher and student to improve student's knowledge

• Relationships among object of knowledge and student

Multiple Choice

What makes a good mediator in learning?

• Cabability of enchancing student's knowledge

• Prioritize homework into small pieces

• Being a consultant in student's lives

Open Ended

How would you help a learner move to the next layer of knowledge of their capabilities?

Social constructivism model

“Sets of factors which influence the learning process”

Open Ended

Briefly explain the factors that influence the learning process and how they might interact and affect each other?

Open Ended

Taking into account the following sentence: “Education is concerned not just with theories of instruction, but with learning to learn, ……. and growing as a whole person”. What is education for you?

“An understanding of the workings of the human mind is not in itself adequate to explain what goes on when we learn something“

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Reference

• Williams & Burden (1997) Psychology for Language Teachers: A social Constructivist approach. Cambridge University Press

• Chapters (1.4) The positivist School (1.5) The cognitive school (2.2) Humanistic approaches, (2.3) Social interactionism and (2.4) A social constructivist