BEHAVIOURISM (Bernard Skinner)
by Genesis Bolaños López
1. Stimules, Response & Reinforcement.
1.1. Foreign Language Learning is different for Adults & babies.
1.2. Innatism - Children are biologically programmed for language (endowment: dotacion). (Noam Chomski)
2. Experiment of the Psycologists - Watson and Raynor (1920)
3. We learn because we acquire a new behaviour, we imitate practices.
3.1. LEARNING - Occurs as a result of conscious study of the formal properties of the language (studied grammar, vocabulary).
3.1.1. Comprehensible input in a relaxed setting (Stephen Krashen)
3.1.2. NOTICING
3.1.2.1. Students are aware of certain language features.
3.1.2.2. THE AFFECTIVE VARIABLE
3.1.2.2.1. Students' feelings or cognitive abilities are central to succes or failure in the leanguage learning.
3.1.2.2.2. DISCOVERING LANGUAGE