The Fawn and His Mother by Aesop for ESL students with a video, vocabulary in real context, questions for discussion and the moral of the story The Fawn and His Mother is now in the public domain available on Gutenberg Project. Video of the Fawn and His Mother The Fawn and His Mother A hind…
The role of imitation in language acquisition and why it is so crucial. This article was written and narrated by Dr. Mohammad Hossein Hariri Asl. Author: Dr. Mohammad Hossein Hariri Asl Watch this video on the role of imitation in language acquisition Watch this video on YouTube. What is imitation? Vygotsky (1987, as cited in…
English presentation on habits and how they are formed and reinforced in life to practice speaking for IELTS & TOEFL exams + reading comprehension practice with vocabulary learning in real context. Join LELB Society’s students and members and give unlimited presentations in English and Persian in our bilingual academy. English presentation on habits Watch this…
Transformational Generative Grammar Transformational Generative Grammar In the late 1960s, Noam Chomsky replaced behaviorism with cognitive psychology. Based on thinking, comprehension, memory, and uniqueness of language learning to the human species. Chomsky claims that the history of linguistics shows a move from an E-language to an I-language approach; “the shift of focus from the dubious…
Traditional Instructional Theory Traditional instructional theory assumes that knowledge and skill can be analysed into component parts that function in the same way no matter where they are used (Resnick, 1989). Psychological theories of the 1920s assumed that learning of complex competencies could be broken down into discrete skills learnt separately, through developing individual stimulus-response…
IELTS Listening Practice Habit Formation IELTS Listening Practice Habit Formation About this activity This activity is labeled round table by Dr. Hariri, the creator and administrator of LELB Society. This activity is on the premise of Flipped Learning, according to which the students watch a video before the class, carry out research into the selected theme, and prepare themselves for an informed discussion in the class. This activity is on…
Skinner Skinner (1953) attempted to extend a classical behaviorist model of learning to language in his famous ‘Verbal Behavior’. His goal was to provide a way to predict and control verbal behavior by observing and manipulating the physical environment of the speaker. In his review of this work, Chomsky (1959) showed that the Skinnerian concepts…
Innateness Hypothesis Innateness Hypothesis It must be that the mind/brain provides a way to identify and extract the relevant information by means of mechanism of some sort that are part of its biologically determined resources. In contrast to the behaviorist hypothesis, a second theory, called the ‘innateness hypothesis’ has developed out of generative transformational grammar.…
IELTS Listening Practice Self-actualization IELTS Listening Practice Self-actualization About this activity This activity is labeled round table by Dr. Hariri, the creator and administrator of LELB Society. This activity is on the premise of Flipped Learning, according to which the students watch a video before the class, carry out research into the selected theme, and prepare themselves for an informed discussion in the class. This activity is on the basis…
Behaviorism Behaviorism Empirical studies were primarily descriptive and totally objective in nature. In the late 1960s and 1970s, a growing consensus was reached that behaviourist theories of L2 learning were inadequate. L2 learners, like L1 learners, were credited with a ‘built-in-syllabus’ (Corder, 1967), which guided their progress. According to the behaviourist hypothesis, the mind of…