Cognitive Theory

Cognitive Theory

1. Contributes to learn a second language

   • Skills
     • Automatic Processing
       • Less time or less attention
         • Automatic Skills
           • Lexical
     • Controlled Processing
       • More time or more attention
         • Controlled Skills
           • Syntatic
           • Reading
   • Time
     • Learning Step by step
     • One at the time
     • Practice
   • Restructuring
     • Interlanguage
       • Adjust two language structures
         • To make it fit
           • In the communicative skills
             • Practice
     • Organization of information
       • Changing old information
         • Getting
           • New
             • Components
               • To improve
           • Better
         • Learning strategies
           • To improve
             • Communicative goals