Module 2

The 2 most influential methodologies:

behaviorist psychology includes:

• pair and group work

• language learning

• habit formation

• trial and errors

• postive / negative feedback

in an audio-lingual classroom: the teacher provides a sentence pattern and the students repeated it

• yes

• no

the teacher is the center of the learning process in an audio-lingual classroom

• yes

• no

the learner is the center of the learning process in a communicative classroom

• yes

• no

communicative approach: meaning > accuracy

• yes

• no

natural order of acquiring language structures: learners acquire grammar not influenced by the 1st language and individual factors

• yes

• no

What are the theoretical approaches to explaining second language learning?

• innatism

• structuralism

• behaviourism

What is the process of Behaviourism?

• Habit formation => Reinforcement (Feedback: Positive/Negative) => Practice - Repetition => Imitation

• Imitation => Reinforcement (Feedback: Positive/Negative) => Practice - Repetition => Habit formation

• Reinforcement (Feedback: Positive/Negative) => Habit formation => Practice - Repetition => Imitation

what is the process of Innatism (Universal Grammar)

• A child listen and learn grammar => trigger UG (inside the brain) => enable to discover the rule of the language

• Enable to discover the rule of the language => A child listen and learn grammar => trigger UG (inside the brain)