Theories of SLA
What is it?
The inquiry that investigates the human capacity to learn languages.
Categories
Cognitive Variations
Second Culture Learning
New Linguistic System
Communicative Functions
Paradigms
Behaviorism (Skinner)
Innatism (Chomsky)
Krashen's Monitor/Model Theory
Precursor to cognitive learning
Language: set of habbits
Teaching should be done by conditioning
Repetition
Language is a innate capacity
Primary linguistic data, general language learning principles, gramatical knowledge and child's speech production
It does not require knowldedge of gramatical rules
Interaction
The acquisition, the monitor hypothesis, the natural order hypothesis, the input hypothesis and the affective filter hypothesis
Leaning is less important than acquisition