Language, learning and teaching

Language, learning and teaching

1. Issues

   • where
     • Natural environment?
     • articial environment?
   • how
     • does learning take place
     • ensure learning
   • why
     • reasons
       • personal
       • affective
       • emotional
       • identify closely with the culture
       • for a successful career
       • passing a foreing language requirement
   • when
     • amount of time in learning process
   • who
     • teachers
     • learners
   • what
     • When
     • differences between f1 and Snd Language

2. Learning and teaching

   • learning is
     • getting
     • retention of information
     • memory and cognitive organization
     • permanent but subjetc to forgetting
     • change in behaviior

3. language

   • Definitions
     • oversimplified
       • systematic communication by vocal symbols
     • sophisticated
       • complex skills
       • formal instruction
       • without concious effort
       • spontaneously in child
   • possible definitions of language yields
     • systematic
     • set of arbitrary symbols
     • symbols are vocal and visuals
     • is use for communication
     • is used for communication
     • operates in a speech community
     • acquire for all people
   • Areas
     • accounts of the system
       • phonological, syntactic and semantic
     • symbolic nature
       • language and reality
       • history of language
       • philosophy of language
     • phonetics
       • paralinguistic features of language
     • semantics
       • psycolinguistics
     • communicating systems
       • speaker-hearer interaction
     • dialectology
       • language and culture
     • language universals
       • psycology of language

4. SCHOOLS OF THOUGHT

   • constructivisim
     • advocates
       • Jean Piaget and Lev vigostky
     • argue that
       • all human beings construct their own version of reality
     • focus on
       • individuals engaged
   • rationalism and cognitive psycology
     • advocate
       • Noam Chomsky
     • interested in
       • descriptive sufficiency
       • explanatory level
       • grammar
       • difference between
         • performance
         • competence
   • structuralism
     • plinguistic's task
       • describe human languages
       • identify the structural characteristics
     • advocates
       • Boomflied, Sapir, Hockett, Fries
     • axiom
       • languages can differ of each other without limit
     • examine
       • observable data
     • speaker
       • locus of verbal behavior
       • not the cause
     • focus
       • language can be dismantled into amall pieces

5. METHOD

   • Grammar translation method
     • no attention on
       • pronuntiation
     • reading
       • began earlier
     • emphasized
       • vocabulary
       • grammar
     • use
       • native language to teach grammar