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Podcameni, Abelardo; Salies, Tania Gastao – 2001
The demise of the behaviorist paradigm and the rise of the social, cognitive, and interactionist models of second language acquisition (SLA) have led to the understanding that constructivist mechanisms are part of the process. Given the variety of empirical findings and understandings research in the field has yielded, this study attempts to offer…
Descriptors: Behaviorism, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Structures
Boufoy-Bastick, Beatrice – 2001
This paper explains how oral competence in foreign languages is developed by applying constructivist pedagogic methodology to the four language skills of speaking, listening, reading, and writing. Foreign language constructivist methodology departs from the information processing model and behaviorist teaching that guide the transmission of…
Descriptors: Behaviorism, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Structures, Communicative Competence (Languages)