Language Learning Theories

Behaviourism

Proponents

Skinner

Bandura

Stimulus< Response

Drilling

Reinforcement

Negative reinforcement

Positive reinforcement

Mentalism

Noam Chomsky

Innate faculty

Genetic component

Developmental stages

Language Acquistion Device

Universal Grammar

Hypothesis testing

Cognitivism

Bruner

Scaffolding

Vigotsky

Zone of Proximal Development

Social construction

Social interaction

Scaffolding

Jean Piaget

Cognitive Development

Age-dependent

Accommodation

Ausubel

Assimilation

Experimental learning

Relational understanding

Drawing Connections

Current Developments

Anderson

directed attention

intentional focus

contextual factors

Memory

Krashen

Language acquisition

Subconsious process

Input understanding

Language learning

Natural order

Error correction

Affective filter

Brown

Explicit learning

Language learning

Conscious process

Declarative knowledge

Noticing

rule created

Implicit learning

Language Acquisition

Unconscious process

Procedural knowledge

rote learning

memorized language