6. View of Language Acquisition and Learning in Foreign Language Didactics

lampThis unit focuses on the area of psycholinguistics and second language acquisition providing an overview of the main theories of language learning (e.g. behavioursim, cognitivism, constructivism, social interactionism), their principles and how they have affected language teaching practices in the classroom.

Presentations

Unit 6: View of Language Acquisition and Learning in Foreign Language Didactics (PDF)
Unit 6: View of Language Acquisition and Learning in Foreign Language Didactics (PPT)

 

Videolectures

Unit 6: View of Language Acquisition and Learning in Foreign Language Didactics (Part A)
Unit 6: View of Language Acquisition and Learning in Foreign Language Didactics (Part B)
Unit 6: View of Language Acquisition and Learning in Foreign Language Didactics (Part C)

 

Educational Videos

Behaviorism, Cognitivism, Constructivism & Learning and Instructional Theory
Theories of Learning
Stephen Krashen - Comprehensible input

 

Reader and Workbook

Unit 6: View of Language Acquisition and Learning in Foreign Language Didactics (PDF)
Unit 6: View of Language Acquisition and Learning in Foreign Language Didactics (DOC)

 

Further Readings

Bolitho, R., Carter, R., Hughes, R., Ivanič, R., Masuhara, H., & Tomlinson, B. (2003). Ten questions about language awarenessELT journal57(3), 251-259.

Bruton, A. (2002). When and how the language development in TBI?ELT Journal56(3), 296-297.

Carter, R. (2003). Language Awareness. ELT journal57(1), 64-65.

Littlewood, W. (2009). Process-oriented pedagogy: facilitation, empowerment, or control?ELT journal63(3), 246-254.

McConachy, T. (2009). Raising sociocultural awareness through contextual analysis: some tools for teachers. ELT journal63(2), 116-125.

Rodrigo, V., Krashen, S., & Gribbons, B. (2004). The effectiveness of two comprehensible-input approaches to foreign language instruction at the intermediate levelSystem32(1), 53-60.