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The development of communicative language teaching was bolstered by these academic ideas. Before the growth of communicative language teaching, the primary method of language teaching was situational language teaching, a method that was much more clinical in nature and relied less on direct communication. In Britain, applied linguists began to ...
Community language learning (CLL) is a language-teaching approach [1] focused on group-interest learning. It is based on the counselling-approach in which the teacher acts as a counselor and a paraphraser, while the learner is seen as a client and collaborator.
In cognitive psychology, cognitive load is the effort being used in the working memory.According to work conducted in the field of instructional design and pedagogy, broadly, there are three types of cognitive load: intrinsic cognitive load is the effort associated with a specific topic; extraneous cognitive load refers to the way information or tasks are presented to a learner; and germane ...
Construal level theory (CLT) is a theory in social psychology that describes the relation between psychological distance and the extent to which people's thinking (e.g., about objects and events) is abstract or concrete.
Many research studies have been conducted that support the relationship between an Ideal L2 Self with motivated learning behavior. [14] The Ought-to self, while being a facet of the L2 learning experience, and being perceived by students as important, is less of a motivating factor and predictor of L2 learning success. [ 14 ]
As SLA began as an interdisciplinary field, it is hard to pin down a precise starting date. [1] However, there are two publications in particular that are seen as instrumental to the development of the modern study of SLA: (1) Corder's 1967 essay The Significance of Learners' Errors, and (2) Selinker's 1972 article Interlanguage. Corder's essay ...
A computer-mediated support system for project-based learning. Paper presented at the annual conference of the American Educational Research Association, Chicago, IL. Taber, K. S. (2011). Constructivism as educational theory: Contingency in learning, and optimally guided instruction. In J. Hassaskhah (Ed.), Educational Theory (pp. 39–61).
[1] The original studies were made in the 1970s, but petered out in the 1980s as researchers concentrated on individual learning strategies. [1] However, some research on the topic has also been carried out in more recent years. [2] [3] The main body of GLL research investigated language learning in classroom situations.