Psychological approaches to language and learning, Stern Summary

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3. CONCEPT OF LANGUAGE LEARNING
14. Psychological Approaches to Language and Learning
Sterns, H.H. 1983. Foundation Concepts of Language
Teaching. London: Oxford University Press.
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Rizky Amelia (140221807915)

4. OUTLINE:
14. Psychological Approaches to Language and Learning
a. Language in psychology
Before World War I
The interwar period
After World War II
Skinner and Chomsky
The study of language comprehension and production
Language acquisition in childhood
b. The psychology of learning
1. The theoretical and experimantal study of learning
Skinner’s operant conditioning and the teaching machine
cognitive approaches to learning
2. The empirical study of learning in educational settings
Concepts of learning in educational psychology
Conclusion

5. Questions:
1. Is there any correlation between psychology and
language learning?
2. Do you think learning is a matter of habit or
cognition?
3. What do you know about psychology and
development? Have you heard about Skinner’s and
Chomsky’s arguments?
4. What are the concepts of learning in educational
psychology?

6. Language
Learning
Psychological
approach
Develop a language
teaching and learning
theory.
-SLA
-LA in childhood
-Language
comprehension
-Language Production
- concepts of learning in
educational psychology
- etc
Behaviorism
Cognitivism

7. 1. Language in Psychology
Before WW I
Interwar
Skinner and Chomsky
After WW II

8. 2. The Psychology of Learning
Theoretical and
Experimental Study
of Learning
Empirical Study
of Learning in
Educational Setting

10. 1. Language in Psychology
Before World War I
Psychoanalysis and
related school of thoughts
Language thinking
affective
aspect of language: Second language teaching

11. The Interwar Period
Verbal behavior
Stimuli (habits)  Responses (skills)

12. After World War II
psychology + linguistics = psycholinguistics
- discussion on language
- develop a body of common theory
- study research issues

15. Diachronic
first language learning
second language learning
bilingualism
phenomenon of language change

16. Skinner and Chomsky
Skinner’s verbal
behavior
Stimulus generalization
Language is a habit structure
Repetition
Chomsky’s review of
verbal behavior
Creative character of language use
Language is not a habit structure
Repetition of fixed phrases is rarity
Re-examine the theoretical bases of psycholinguistics.

17. The study of language comprehension
Psychology
Psicholinguistics
linguistics
Main
interest
Transformational generative
grammar
Language comprehension and
production
Second language teaching

18. Language Acquisition in Childhood
McLaughlin (1978)
the language acquisition processes:
1. taking linguistics and behavior into account
2. reflecting the child’s changing experiences with
linguistic and nonlinguistic environment
3. gradual and reflects the child’s cognitive growth
4. communicative skills through interaction with social
environment.

19. The Psychology of Learning
Learning is importance to general and theoretical
psychology
Learning is actually has been approach in two
ways:
1. The theoretical and experimantal study of
learning
2. The empirical study of learning in educational
settings

20. 1. The theoretical and experimantal study
of learning
a. Skinner’s operant conditioning and the
teaching machine
b. cognitive approaches to learning

21. 2. The empirical study of learning in
educational settings
Concepts of learning in educational
psychology
a. Characteristics of the learner
b. Different kinds of learning
c. The learning process
d. Outcomes of learning

22. CONCLUSION
The psychological contribution is so perpasive that there
is hardly an aspect of language teaching which could not
be related to psychology.
Descriptive study of language
Curriculum development
Expression of objectives
Teaching procedures
Organization of LT in education
Pedagogical grammars
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