Quang Phương: MEETING 4:
A. Give detailed information about SLA THEORIES:
Behavior: Pavior, Skinner
Mentalism: Chomsky
Constructivism: Vygotsky
I+1: Krashen
1. Behaviorism: Pavior, Skinner
- History: Experiments of classical conditioning Pavlov:
Dog does not need to learn to salivate when seeing food (Unconditioned response)
Skinner: Skinner box (Operant Conditioning)
Thorndike puzzle box
- Key: Learning is controlled by the environment, Stimulus-Response
- Applications:
Ss retain knowledge through practice.
- Technology helps teachers to provide some exercises or games in the form of drills and repetition.
2. Mentalism/ Cognitivism (Chomsky) => Direct Method
- The human ability for language learning is the result of evolution nature of language.
- Innate and subconscious.
- How can children learn languages so fast and so easily???
- LAD: Language Acquisition Device (Blackbox, Blueprint)
- Universal Grammar Theory.
- No need to teach grammar, focusing on speaking skills and listening skills.
- Technology helps teachers to provide authentic input for students and creates a native learning environment.
3. Constructivism: Vygotsky => Communicative Language Teaching
- Learning: Construct-Reconstruct-Deconstruct knowledge.
- Vygotsky theory: Social learning = We learn from others, esp (MKO: More Knowledgeable Others)
- ZPD: Zone of Proximal Development.
- Key: People learning by working in groups to interact with other people.
- Technology helps teachers to create discussion forums, social networks, and virtual classrooms (Second Life Software).
4. Input Hypothesis: Krashen:
- Input is very important for language learning.
- Remember the formula i+1, we need to provide good input for students (1 level)
(For example, Teacher supplies necessary materials to help students made an advance from IELTS 4.0 to IELTS 5.0)
- Technology helps teachers to provide useful information for their students in an easy and fast way.
B. Discussing some information about E-learning projects:
- Assoc. Prof.Vu – The instructor asks students to creat an account on www.englishonline.com.vn
- Assoc. Prof.Vu asked students to watch the clip “An E-learning basic course”.