• 12. What’s Lightbown and Spada (2013)’s argument against a behaviourist view of language teaching?

  Lightbown and Spada (2013) noted that behaviourism appears to present a reasonable explanation for how children acquire aspects of their L1, particularly the more frequent or pedestrian aspects, and a

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• 11. what are a typical set of classroom work based on a behaviorist view?

  Important elements of classroom work would include drilling, repetition, memorization and rote learning, with the teacher explaining and presenting examples of language that the students need to acqui

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• 10. What are the implications of behaviourists perspective on language teaching approaches?

  Translating the behaviourist perspective to the phenomenon of SLA, behaviourist- informed teaching approaches would be teacher-led and expository.In the behaviourist L2 classroom, the teacher would be

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• 9. How did traditional behaviourists think Children acquire their L1?

  Traditional behaviourists believed that children come into this world as blank slates on which knowledge can be written. Their L1 is acquired as a result of imitation, practice, feedback on success an

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• 8. What is behaviorism? What is operant conditioning by Skinner?

  From the behaviourist perspective, children tend to imitate the sounds and language patterns in the environments around them, and when they receive positive reinforcement on their language use, such a

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• 7. What are the three foundational but contrasting theoretical perspectives on learning?

  Mitchell et al. (2019) argued that discussions about SLA have always been influenced by broader and more general discussions about human learning. One such discussion is the so-called nature–nurture de

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• 6. What are the two key questions to address when considering enhancing L2 learners' communicative competence?

  There are two key questions exercising both teachers and researchers when considering how L2 learners’ communicative competence can best be advanced in the language classroom:1. How

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• 5. East's aim and primary concern in his book Foundational principles of task-based language teaching (2021)

  Fundamentally, East’s aim is to lay a foundation, indeed several foundations, as springboards from which readers can launch themselves, should they wish to go deeper in their exploration of any aspect

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