Cognitive Theory of Learning

Cognitive Theory of Learning

1. Students' Styles

   • Learning Styles
     • Reid (1995)
       • Visual
       • Auditory
       • Kinaesthetic
       • Tactil
     • Willing (1988)
       • Concrete
       • Analytic
       • Communicative
       • Authority-oriented
   • Cognitive Styles
     • Field Independence
       • Not so socially aware
       • Independent
       • Analytic
       • Impersonal Orientation
     • Field Dependence
       • Personal Orientation
       • Holistic
       • Dependent
       • Socially sensitive

2. Intelligence

   • IQ Intelligence Quotient
     • Intelligence Influence adquisition of skills
     • Less success of language learning
       • Naturalistic Settings
     • Success of language learning
       • Formal instruction context
   • Gardner (1985)
     • Multiple Intelligences
       • Bodily-kinesthetic
       • Spatial
       • Linguistic
       • Naturalistic
       • Spiritual
       • Logico-Mathematic
       • Musical
       • Intrapersonal
       • Interpersonal

3. Aptitude

   • Ability to learn quickly
   • Components in language aptitude
     • phonetic coding ability
     • Rote learning ability
     • Grammatical Sensitivity
     • Inductive language learning ability
   • Individualised learning
     • Ss with different abilities
       • "Strong" learner
       • "Weak" learner

4. Learning Strategies

   • Oxford and Crookall (1989)
     • Steps taken by the learner to aid the acquisition
       • Characteristics
         • Communicative Competence
         • Ss become autonomous
         • Flexible
   • Classification of Strategies
     • Memory
     • Compensation
     • Metacognitive
     • Social
     • Communication
     • Cognitive
     • Affective

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