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Principles
Cognitive
Principles
Automaticity
Automatic processing with peripheral
attention to language forms.
Subconscious acquisition.
Inductive process of exposure to input.
Efficient 2nd language learning involves
automatic processing of a relatively
unlimited number of language forms.
Overanalyses and thinking of rules tend to
impede this automaticity.
What classroom practices or techniques can
help automaticity?
Meaningful Learning
Meaningful learning will lead toward better
long-term retention than rote learning.
Associating create stronger retention.
Meaningful learning subsumes new
information into existing structures and
memory systems.
New topics or concepts are anchored into
students existing knowledge.
How can we foster meaningful learning?
Anticipation of Reward
Human beings are inspired and driven to act
or behave by the anticipation of some
reward.
Importance of verbal praise and
encouragement for correct responses or
success (gold stars, stickers, privileges for
good work).
Intrinsic Motivation
Behaviour stems from needs, wants, or
Strategic Investment
Successful mastery of the second language will be
Affective
Principles
Language Ego
As human beings learn to use a second
Self- Confidence
Learners believe that they can are fully
principle.
How can we help our learners be more self-
confident?
Risk-Taking
Importance of getting learners to take
Linguistic
Principles
Interlanguage
Second language learners tend to go through
a systematic or quasi-systematic
developmental process as they progress to full
competence in the target language.
Successful interlanguage development is
partially a result of utilizing feedback from
others.
Mistakes are good indicators that innate
language acquisition abilities are alive and
well.
Mistakes are often indicators of aspects of the
new language that are still developing.
Communicative
Competence
Given that communicative competence is the goal of