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Ney, James W.

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Trends in Foreign-Language Teaching with Implications for the Teaching of English as a Foreign Language.

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Ney, James W. – English Language Teaching Journal, 1980

Discusses the implications for language teaching of Chomskyean and transformational theory. The notions of deep structure, linguistic theory building, and inutility of a corpus are far less interesting than the view of language as rule-governed behavior and language learning as hypothesis-testing. Rationalist v behaviorist theories are discussed.…

Descriptors: Behavior Theories, Cognitive Processes, Deep Structure, English (Second Language)

Fads and Fashions in Foreign Language Teaching.

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Ney, James W. – Foreign Language Annals, 1979

Discusses the structuralist and the cognitivist theories of language learning, and emphasizes the importance of practice in second language learning. (AM)

Descriptors: Language Instruction, Learning Processes, Learning Theories, Linguistic Theory