THEORIES OF LEARNING

BY : GROUP 4
 LEARNING THEORIES

Hutchinson and Waters (1987) speak about ´learning

theories´ which provide the theoretical basis for the
methodology, by helping us to understand how people
learn
BEHAVIOURISM: Learning as habit formation

Principle

Errors –
Never corrected
Translate immediately
Drills Frequent
repetition

Follow the sequence hear –

speak – read – write
 MENTALISM:
THINKING AS RULE-GOVERNED ACTIVITY

Chomsky conclude :
 Thinking must be rule-governed
• A finite
• Fairly small
• Set of rules enables the mind to deal with the potentially infinite
range of experience it may encounter
 Learning is consist not of forming habits, but acquiring rules
 COGNITIVE CODE:
LEARNERS AS THINKING BEINGS
The cognitive view takes :
The learner to be an active processor of information
Require learners to think
Actively tries to make sense of data
Managed to impose some sort of meaningful interpretation on
pattern on the data
Task : Problem-Solving activities
 THE AFFECTIVE FACTOR:
LEARNERS AS EMOTIONAL BEING

The importance of the emotional factor

Gardner and Lambert’s identified two form of
motivation:
 Instrumental Motivation
 Integrative Motivation
 LEARNING AND ACQUISITION

Learning
(a conscious
process)
Acquisition
(an unconscious
process)
 A MODEL FOR LEARNING

A need to acquire knowledge is a necessary

factor but the learner should
enjoy the process of acquisition