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Acculturation Model and Language-Culture Connection

Last updated on January 27, 2020 by Dr. Mohammad Hossein Hariri Asl

Acculturation Model Acculturation model is one of the aspects of ‘language-culture connection. Schumann’s Acculturation Model was established to account for the acquisition of L2 by immigrants in majority language settings. It specifically excludes learners who receive formal instruction. In this response, Schumann (1978) states, “… second language acquisition is just one aspect of acculturation and…

Audiolingualism:

Last updated on November 26, 2019 by Dr. Mohammad Hossein Hariri Asl

After Grammar Translation Method, it emerged in the late 1950s and 1960s. This method is very popular even today. On the foundation of drill-based techniques and exercises.

Behaviorism:

Last updated on November 26, 2019 by Dr. Mohammad Hossein Hariri Asl

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Communicative Language Teaching

Last updated on November 26, 2019 by Dr. Mohammad Hossein Hariri Asl

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Topic: Communicative Language Teaching

Learner-centered Method | TESL Issues

Last updated on November 26, 2019 by Dr. Mohammad Hossein Hariri Asl

Learner-centered Method Learner-centered method is principally concerned with learner needs, wants, and situations. These methods such as Communicative Language Teaching seek to provide opportunities for learners to practice preselected, presequenced linguistic structures and communicative notions/functions through meaning-focused activities, assuming that a preoccupation with form and function will ultimately lead to target language mastery and that…

Discourse Analysis and Pragmatics | TESL Issues

Last updated on November 26, 2019 by Dr. Mohammad Hossein Hariri Asl

Discourse Analysis Discourse analysis serves as a device for systematically describing the kinds of interactions that occur in language classrooms. Drawing on initial work on content classrooms by Bellack (1966) and by the Birmingham School of linguistis (Sinclair & Coulthard (1975) discourse analysts give attention not only to the function of individual utterances but also…

Cognitive Development | TESL Issues

Last updated on November 26, 2019 by Dr. Mohammad Hossein Hariri Asl

Cognitive Development Cognitive Development was proposed by Piaget (1896-1980), a Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget offered an essentially rationalist perspective, documenting the insufficiency of an empiricist interpretation of experience (Piaget, 1980, p. 23). Sensory Motor Stage: Piaget’s theory is based on learners passing through a series of stages. For the young infant, the most important way…

Learning-centered Method

Last updated on November 26, 2019 by Dr. Mohammad Hossein Hariri Asl

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Noticing Hypothesis

Last updated on November 26, 2019 by Dr. Mohammad Hossein Hariri Asl

Schmidt (1990, 1994, 2001) claimed that attention to input is a conscious process. He viewed noticing (i.e. registering formal features in the input) and noticing the gap (i.e. identifying how the input to which the learner is expected differs from the output the learner is able to generate) as essential processes in L2 acquisition.

Motivation

Last updated on November 26, 2019 by Dr. Mohammad Hossein Hariri Asl

Gardner’s Socio-Educational Model (with integrative motivation the key construct) was the dominant theory in early motivation research.

A social-psychological factor frequently used to account for differential success in learning a second language is motivation. This has an intuitive appeal. It makes sense that individuals who are motivated will learn another language faster and to a greater degree. And, quite clearly, some degree of motivation is involved in initial decisions to learn another language and to maintain learning (Gass & Selinker, 2008).