LANGUAGE

ACQUISITION
The positivist and the cognitivist school
The posititvist school was focus on…

 Psychology school
 Observe and Measure
 Learning as a condition

Behaviourism B.F. Skinner

Behaviourism

 Classical Conditioning (Pavlov) (John

Watson)
Stimulus- Response (S-R)
 Conexionism (Edward Thorndike)

A stimulus generate a reaction and the a

connexion among different stimulus and
reactions.
 Contiguous conditioning (Edwin
Guthrie)
B.F. Skinner

Taken from: https://www.slideshare.net/dawndrake/operant-conditioning-chart

What a lesson is like …

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pz0TPDUz3FU&ab_channel=AmericanEnglish

 What do you think about it?

Behaviourism limitations

 Learner is passive
 No engagement in analysing the
language.
 Learner does not develop strategies of
communication
 There are not evidences about what is
the learner thinking.
 No creativity.
Cognitive psychology

Works on
In The
the field Branches
contrast learner
Human minds of:
Artificial Constructivis
thinks and Participant
intelligence m
learns.

Knowledge Systems of
They use their Descripción de
based on memory and
minds to: la tarea
memory reading

Observe
The science of
Think
mental life
Categorise

Descripción de
la tarea
Constructivist
Jean Piaget
George Kelly

• Human intelligence
• IQ testing
Information processing

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Attention

Perception

Memory
Memory

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1. Sensory register
2. Working memory
3. Long-term memory
4. Rehearsal

David Ausubel (1968)

Meaningful learning theory
Intelligence
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Can it be measured? Why?
Segregation of some children
into special schools

This often leads to the logically

unjustifiable conclusion that
anyone failing in school or
having difficulty in learning must,
therefore, lack intelligence.
Intelligence
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CONSTRUCTIVISM

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Main considerations
1. Learner as an individual when constructing meaning
2. Thinking development and its relationships with language.
3. Language tasks (abstract or simple)
4. Accommodation and assimilation (new concepts vs previous ones)
Activity
1. After Reading 1.5 the Cognitive School create groups of 5 people
2. Create a Venn diagram (
https://www.lucidchart.com/pages/tutorial/venn-diagram) to summarize the
main authors and ideas exposed in the chapter.
3. Death line for submissions 30th September 2020