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Mayher, John S. – New York University Education Quarterly, 1980
Noam Chomsky proposed that when children learn a language they do not learn to imitate given sentences; rather, they learn rules by which an infinite number of sentences can be produced and understood. This essay discusses the impact which this has had on the way educators view language and learning. (KC)
Descriptors: Educational Theories, Language Acquisition, Language Research, Learning Processes
Boileau, Armand – Revue des Langues Vivantes, 1973
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Conditioning, Learning Processes, Phonology
Download full textMalmstrom, Jean – 1975
Two crucial factors in teaching spelling are the teacher's understanding of the material to be learned and the teacher's understanding of the nature of the learner. Psycholinguistics is relevant to both the material and the learner. In teaching spelling, it is possible to draw insights from behavioral and cognitive psychology as well as from Noam…
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Elementary Education, Learning Processes, Psycholinguistics
Johnson, Ronald E. – 1972
A study was conducted to discover whether college students could predict which linguistic subunits of expository prose would be recalled. Comparison was made between the predicted subunits and the actual subunits recalled. Subjects were presented with 650 or 810 word prose passages and informed that they would be tested on their recall of passages…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Educational Research, Learning Processes, Memory
Peer reviewedRoss, Janet – TESOL Quarterly, 1972
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, Behavior Theories, Cognitive Processes, English (Second Language)
Peer reviewedNey, 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
Peer reviewedOller, John W., Jr. – Foreign Language Annals, 1979
Examines the loss in popularity of contrastive linguistics as a method for explaining second language learning systems, and calls for a turn to pragmatics in language teaching. (AM)
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Deep Structure, Error Analysis (Language), Interference (Language)
