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Myles, Florence – Language Teaching, 2010
Second language acquisition (SLA) is a relatively new field of enquiry. Before the late 1960s, educators did write about L2 learning, but very much as an adjunct of language teaching pedagogy, underpinned by behaviourism, the then-dominant learning theory in psychology. In this view, the task facing learners of foreign languages was to rote-learn…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Second Language Learning, Linguistic Theory, Teaching Methods