language teaching

Behaviorism in second language learning Empirical studies were primarily descriptive and totally objective by nature. In the late 1960s and 1970s, a growing consensus was reached that behaviorist theories of L2 learning were inadequate. L2 learners, like L1 learners, were credited with a ‘built-in-syllabus’, which guided their progress. According to the behaviorist hypothesis, the mind of …