Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Schools of Thought in Second
Language Learning
- 1900 - 1950
- Behaviorism
- Observable behaviors
- Mental processes were ignored
- Structural Linguistics
- Observable linguistic behaviors
- Meaning or thought were ignored
- Learning through conditioning
- classical
- Operant
- Positive reinforcement
- Positive punishment
- Leonard Bloomfield, Edward Sapir,
Charles Hockett & Charles Fries
- 1960 - 1980
- Generative Linguistics
- Interested in describing & in arraving at an explanatory of language
- Competence reveals the meaning and thought (deep structure) that
generates the observable performance
- Cognitive Psychology
- Meaning, understanding, and knowing were significant
- Sought to discover underlying
motivation and deeper structures of
human behavior
- Focus on psychological principles of
organization and functioning
- Noam Chomsky & David Ausbel
- 1980 - 2000
- Constructivism
- All human beings construct their own
version of reality
- Emphasis in active processes of construction &
in the nature of knowledge and its variations
- Piaget
- Individual cognitive development as a solitary act
- Biological timetables and stages of development were basic
- Vygotsky
- Social interaction was foundational in cognitive
development