Psychology provides a second main foundation for instructional practices. The most successful paradigm in the early days of educational psychology was behaviorism. Educators who devote their attention to the whole learner reap the reward of rich person to person interaction. Such education draws on philosophy, psychology, sociology, and anthropology.
The earliest type of language teaching was predicted on authorities having strict control over the learners’ behavior. Grammar-translation pedagogy can be seen as a traditional form of behaviorism. But there are drawbacks to traditional behaviorism. Chomsky claimed that language is not learned solely through a process behavioral reinforcement, but that the mind contains an active language processors the language acquisition device(LAD), which generates rules through the unconscious acquisition of grammar.
Response to Jua Lee
In her writing communicative language teaching, one of the cultural approaches emphasizes that language learners should know when, where, and how to use language appropriately beyond grammatical competence. ). In this point I feel sorry for my students because I have teaching students English mainly focusing on grade. Most English teachers who are teaching middle and high school students in Korea cannot help focusing on English grade. I need to think over my teaching style but if test grade is more significant to learners and parents I am not sure I can make it or not. It’s my dilemma..--;
Response to Sujin Kim
She wrote the teacher considers the various tasks that language users must be able to perform in the unit and make provision for learning the vocabulary and concepts needed in the discourse of the content areas involved. I have the same idea as she wrote. To learn a foreign language efficiently learners need to integrate various fields experiencing the units together like listening, speaking, reading, writing not focusing on one field like grammar or reading.
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