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Contradictions in Theoretical Approaches to the Teaching of Foreign Languages

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Ney, James W. – Modern Language Journal, 1974

Briefly discusses the work of L. Jakobovits, R. Wardhaugh and R. Lakoff with respect to current behavioristic and cognitivist theories of language learning. (PM)

Descriptors: Conditioning, Deep Structure, Language Instruction, Linguistic Theory

Trends in Foreign-Language Teaching with Implications for the Teaching of English as a Foreign Language.

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Ney, James W. – English Language Teaching Journal, 1980

Discusses the implications for language teaching of Chomskyean and transformational theory. The notions of deep structure, linguistic theory building, and inutility of a corpus are far less interesting than the view of language as rule-governed behavior and language learning as hypothesis-testing. Rationalist v behaviorist theories are discussed.…

Descriptors: Behavior Theories, Cognitive Processes, Deep Structure, English (Second Language)