Chapter1Language, Learning and Teaching

"A systematic means of communicating ideas or feelings by the use of conventionalized signs, sounds, gestures, or marks having understood meaning" What's it?

• Language

• Teaching

• SLA

• Learning

“showing or helping someone to learn how to do something, giving instructions and guiding, providing with the knowledge, causing to know or understand”.

• SLA

• Language

• Teaching

• Learning

“acquiring knowledge of a subject or skill by study, experience, or instruction”

• Teaching

• Learning

• Language

• SLA

"SLA" means:

• Second Learning Acquisition

• Second Language Acquisition

• Silent Language Acquisition

• Silent Learning Acquisition

Structural linguistics focuses on

• explanation

• performance

• meaning

• description

Behaviorism describes

• Responses that could perceived

• Observation of thinking

• Mentalistic theorizing

• Observation of ideas

Behaviorism is

• Chomsky

• Piaget

• Skinner

• Vygotsky

Generative and Cognitive approach study:

• Human intents

• Human mind/ brain

• Human thoughts and motivation

• All is correct

Cognitivist are interested in:

• What questions

• Why questions

Cognitivism is:

• Skinner

• Chomsky

• Vygotsky

• Piaget