That is very well put . . . but we must cultivate our garden.
I <3 Chomsky
100
This theory cannot explain the creative aspects of our linguistic ability.
What is Structuralism
100
This theoretician argued that language learning (like any other learning) was the result of receiving a stimulus, responding to that stimulus, and receiving reinforcement for that response.
Who is Skinner
100
This hypothesis introduced the learner's emotional state as a variable affecting learning.
What is the Affective Filter Hypothesis
100
This method was the borne of Structuralism and Behaviorism.
What is Audiolingual Method
100
This theory asserts that all children will acquire their L1 due to an innate capacity for language.
What is the theory of Universal Grammar
200
Popular in the 1980's, this theory asserts that learning a language is no different from learning anything else.
What is Connectionism
200
This theoretician argued that input was not, by itself, sufficient for acquisition but rather that the learner had to "notice" the new information.
Who is Schmidt
200
This theory pointed out that more frequent the exposure to a piece or body of knowledge the more likely the learner was to learn through association.
What is Connectionism
200
This method was the product of the cognitive shift brought on by Krashen's 5 Hypothesis.
What is Communicative Language Teaching (will also accept immersion and content-based teaching)
200
This hypothesis states that even a novice speakers utilize a learned system of language to notice errors and self correct.
What is the monitor hypothesis
300
According to critics this perspective pays too much attention to the final stage of language and not enough attention to the developmental stages leading to mastery.
What is the Innatist Perspective
300
This theoretician was the first to make the distinction between explicit knowledge and implicit knowledge.
Who is Bialystok
300
This hypothesis took into account the learner's cognitive readiness when considering how likely it was that he/she would successfully learn.
What is the Noticing Hypothesis
300
Information processing states that this method is necessary to develop automaticity.
What is repeated exposure ("practice")
300
This hypothesis asserts that novice language learners must be given comprehensible input barely over what they themselves could produce or understand independently.
What is the Input Hypothesis
400
Innatists claim that this group has exaggerated the importance of interlocutors.
Who are the Interactionists
400
This theoretician argued that teachers ought to let learning take its course.
Who is Newmark
400
This hypothesis emphasized the importance of modified interactions and the process of attaining mutual comprehension.
What is the Interaction Hypothesis
400
The process by which input is made more comprehensible (in the context of the interaction hypothesis).
What is Interaction Modification
400
This theory postulated the notion that a child's first language and a child's second language were gained in significantly different fashions and served as the foundation for Krashen's 5 theories.
What is the Acquisition-Learning Hypothesis
500
The article, written in 1987 entitled "Against Comprehensible Input," questioned whether this theory could be empirically tested.
What is Krashen's Monitor Model
500
This researcher brought attention to the importance of studying student errors and discovered that most errors did not come from the student's L1.
Who is Corder
500
Working within this model Norman Segalowitz suggested that learners had a limited amount of mental resources which they could devote to processing/learning language.
What is the Information Processing Model
500
Derived from insights gained from neurological research this model asserts that abstract words are associated with concrete objects thereby creating an elaborate system of mental cues.
What is the Comprehension Model
500
This program, developed by Chomsky, acts as a line of inquiry into why language has the properties that it has.