METHODOLOGY AND THEORY OF LEARNING LANGUAGES
METHOD, METHODOLOGY, THEORIES, FIRST AND SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION
Method, Methodology Language Teaching
Method
Road or way
To reach a purpose
APPROACH
Give some knowledge, theories
Nature of language
Theories of the nature of language
Structural
Find the meaning
Grammar units and operations
Giving syntax of the language
Functional
Means in order to state meaning
Semantical field of the language
Interactional
Subtopic
Theories of the nature of language learning
Design - Procedure
DESIGN
Describes
Syllabus
Describes the connection
Language theories
Learning
Teaching approach or method
The language assessment system
Learners
Needed to carry out
Educational process
The approach and method
Always be based
Philosophy of the student
Teachers
Direct student's learning
Become
Facilitators
The guide of students
Tarjet language
Helps to acquire
Not necessary
Non-native language
Students can be prepared
Self-instruction
Instructional materials, types and functions
Basic in language teaching approach or method
Reinforcent teaching
Setting objectives
PROCEDURE
Final step
Teaching/leraning process
Role of some techniques
In learning/teaching process
Teaching and learning teqchniques
for inttroduce new topics in class
Exercises and practical activities
To help students
Understand the new topics
Resources to develop, implement best practices
Additional elements in learning/teaching process
Time
Space
Equipment
Comes from Greek roots
META = goal
HODOS = way
Methodology
Procedures and activities
Will be used to teach
Content of the syllabus
Are used
To teach
Target Language
Comes from Latin roots
METHODUS = way to
reach a goal
LOGY/LOGIE = procedure or
system
Basics Aspects About Language
LANGUAGE
Organized system
Composed of sounds
Are used in a specific culture
Establish communication or relationships
LEARNING
Acquisition
Learning
Conscious process
Within the human brain
Intensive repetition
Better understanding of new facts
TEACHING
Systematic process
Used by teachers
(or any person)
Learning process
Theories About First and Second Language Acquisition
THEORIES FIRST LANGUAGE ACQUISITION
Behavioristic Theories
Child get syntax patterns
On stimulus response
Supported by imitation
They have a nature
Organize and provide
About some statements
Is reinforced untill became a habit
Fist Language
Consciously learned
By means of oral stimulus
Is not rewards
Children not able to learn
All of the syntax patterns
At beginning of their lives
Generative Theories
Children learn through
Mechanism of innate language
Subtopic
Enables to learn
Language spoken
Theories
The Nativist Approach
Childrens are pro-programmed
To get first language
According
Avram Noam Chomsky (1928-2017)
Childrens make
Their own rules
Use of language
Children already have
A universal knowledge
Syntax and grammar
Children choose
Correct grammar rule
Larry B. McNeill (1951-2004)
Children can learn
Recogize differents speech
Arrange linguistic data
For futher use
Understand and choose
One linguistic information
Evaluation device
To use linguistic facts
The Cognitive Approach
Human brain
Organaized in levels memory
Perception
Thought
Meaning
Emotion
Child was born
A sort of knowledge
About first language
Important authors
Lois Bloom
Children learn by
By underlying relationships
Jean William Fritz Piaget (1886-1980)
Language become
In terms of a interrelationship
With linguistic knowledge (devolop daily)
Dan Isaac Slobin
The meaning of words and thing
The first thing
Humans acquire
Then get syntax
THEORIES OF SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITIONS
Phychologycal Principles
The Classical Behaviorism Theory
Iván Petróvich Pávlov (1849-1936)
Classical Conditioning
A stimulus give a response
John Broadus Watson (1878-1958)
Stimulus-response connections
The Neobehaviorism
Burrhus Frederic Skinner (1904-1990)
Operant Behavior
A conduct carry out in the society
People's reinforcement
Positive acceptance
Negative acceptance
Programed Instructiong
A special system
Starting from simple teaching facts
Finishing with difficult
The Cognitive Learning Theory
David Paul Ausubel (1918-2008)
Can learn by means
A meaningful procedure
Relates
Person alredy know (meaning learning)
What the person has acquired recently (rote learning)
Frank Smith (1921-2007)
Manufactoring meaningfulness
Learning meaningful
If the person wants it
Depends of human
Needs
Goals
Aspirations
Motivations
Process of retention
Two types of memory
Short-term
Informtion by some seconds or minutes
Long-term
The most significant is remembered
The Humanistic Psychology Theory
Karl Ransom Rogers (1902-1987)
Effective operations
Enviromental features
Considering in learning
Learning
Concept of a person
Learner becomes consious
Their own knowledge
Environment
Accustomed to such environmen
Learners require
Excellent teachers
Their can help pupils learn
Any sort of information
teachers ought to be
Facilitator
Consider people
Get in touch and listen students
THEORIES OF LANGUAGE ACQUISITION
LANGUAGE ACQUISITION
Atheoretical Studies
Child language
Prevocalic stage
Toward
Clear speech
Nature
Theory of language
Speech development
Being acquired
Linguistic knowledge
Linguistic ability
Seek communication
Before production
Early steps
Babbling
pronunce two, three words
In one
Short phrases
Few connections
Cognitive Theories
Children is born
With some sort
Of process mechanism
Procedures and inference rules
Active Process
Learner is'nt
Passive reactor
To external stimuli
Retain Items
In short-term memory
In long-term memory
Segment expressions
In sounds and meanings
Cognitive and mental development
Determinant the language acquisition
The child's temporal reference
Breaks free from the present moment
Imagining him/herself
Other moments and events
Another perspective.
Behavioristic Theories
B. Frederic Skinner (1904-1990)
Specific linguistic behaviors acquire
Operant conditioning
Language is acquire
operant learning
reinforcent stimilu
approximations
generalizations
Children
Cannot establish longer sentences
Acquire hierarchical grammar
Word order occurs
During language acquisition
Nativist Theories
Language emerges
During maturational process
Ability innate to learn language
Biological endowment
Categorization
Perception
Transformation capabilities
Language acquisition period
Two and twelve years
Language Acquisition Device (LAD)
Distinguish speech sounds
Refine
Phonological systems
Syntactic systems
Kind of linguistic system
Certain type is possible
Other types are'nt
Children is born with
Innate knowledge
Linguistic universals
Innate organizing principles
The concept of
“Sentence"
Assess
Developing language system
Linguistic Universals
WEAK
Reflections universal in language
STRONG
Reflections specific in language