L2 Theories

L2 Theories

1. The Sociocultural perspective

   • The Sociocultural perspective is one approach to understanding why humans behave the way they do. The Sociocultural perspective seeks understand human behavior and personality development by examining the rules fo social groups and subgroups in which the individual is a member.

2. Connectionism

   • Connectionism is an approach to the study of human cognition that utilizes mathematical models, known as connectionist networks or artificial neutral networks. Often, these come in the form of highly interconnected, neuron- nike processing units.

3. The innatist perspective

   • This theory implies that all children are programmed to understand and have a specific innate ability to learn languages like a specific innate ability to learn languages like a biological need and they will distinguish the mistakes made in a sentence.

4. Behaviorism Theory

   • Behaviorisim, also known as behavioral psychology, is a theory of learning based on the idea that all behaviors are acquired through conditioning occurs through interaction with the environment behaviorists belive that our responses to environmental stimuli our actions.

5. The cognitivist-Developmental perspective

   • Cognitivism is a learning theory that focuses on the processes involved in learning rather than on the observed behavior. As opposed to Behaviorists, Cognitivists do not require an outward exhibition of learning, but focus more on the internal processes and connects that take place during learning.