Learning Theories and Methodologies

Which learning theory seeks to "broaden attention from the learner as an isolated individual to include a focus on the social settings that construct and constitute the individual as a learner" (Lave and Wenger, 1991)

• Constructivism

• Social Learning Theories

• Socialism

• Cognitivism

Which of these is NOT a theory of learning?

• Behaviourism

• Social Learning Theory

• Cognasism

• 
  Constructivism

Which learning theory centres on what happens between stimulus and response, understanding processes such as memory?

• Cognitivism

• Cognitive Behaviourism

• 
  Cognitive Constructivism

• Constructivism

What does cognitive theory focus on?

• 
  Mental Process

• physical process

Who proposed the cognitive development?

• Leon Festinger

• Albert Einstein

• Jean Piaget

• Albert Bandura

What is schema?

• Units of thoughts

• Units of instruction

• Units of reflection

• Units of knowledge

What is an approach?

• an ordered sequence of techniques. For example, a popular

  dictation procedure starts when the students are put in small groups.

• procedures and techniques, which seem to work and for which an approach

  is then developed.

• Theories about the nature of language

  and language learning. It provides the reasons for doing things in the classroom and the reasons for the way they are done.

• It is a new method that incorporates theories of language and learning.

Write the right method.
Students were given (in their own language) explanations of individual points of grammar, and then they were given sentences which exemplified these points. These sentences had to be translated from the target language (L2) back to the students’ first language (L1) and vice versa.

(a)  

Write the right method.
This method relied heavily on drills to form habits; substitution was built into these drills so that, in small steps, the student was constantly learning and, moreover, was shielded from the possibility of making mistakes by the design of the drill.

(a)  

(a)   has been used, by many people, as a term to describe a philosophy which stresses the communicative nature of language, rather than as a precise description of a method.