1. CONCEPT OF LANGUAGE LEARNING
14. Psychological Approaches to Language and Learning
Stern, H.H. 1983. Foundation Concepts of Language
Teaching. London: Oxford University Press.
Presented by:
Rizky Amelia (140221807915)

2. Questions:
1. Is there any correlation between psychology and
language learning?
2. Do you know the chronological development of
language in psychology?
3. Do you know how is the psychology of learning?

3. OUTLINE:
14. Psychological Approaches to Language and Learning
a. Language in psychology
Before World War I
The interwar period
After World War II
Skinner and Chomsky
The study of language comprehension and production
Language acquisition in childhood
b. The psychology of learning
1. The theoretical and experimantal study of learning
Skinner’s operant conditioning and the teaching machine
cognitive approaches to learning
2. The empirical study of learning in educational settings
Concepts of learning in educational psychology
Conclusion

4. Why
psychology?
Psychology Language
Language is a necessary part of psychology inquiry

5. Diagram 1: An overview of psychology

6. sociology
psychology
LANGUAGE
anthropology
How is psychology’s position?

7. Language in
Psychology
Psychology of
Learning
Before World War I
The interwar period
After World War II
Skinner and Chomsky
The study of language
comprehension and production
Language acquisition in
childhood
The theoretical and
experimantal study of learning
The empirical study of
learning in educational
settings

8. Language
Learning
Psychological
approach
Develop a language
teaching and learning
theory.
-SLL
-LA in childhood
-Language
comprehension
-Language Production
- concepts of learning in
educational psychology
- etc
Behaviorism
Cognitivism

9. 1. Language in Psychology
Before WW I
±1900
Interwar
±1915
Skinner and Chomsky
±1957
After WW II
±1940
Language comprehension
and production
±1960
Language in
childhood
±1978

10. one among many aspects
1. Nature or nurture
2. Interaction
3. acquisition
Before WW I
±1900
Interwar
±1915
After WW II
±1940
Establish, develop, study

11. Diagram 2: The role of linguistics

12. Diagram 3: Organization of psycholinguistics

13. Skinner Chomsky
1. Shaping and reinforcement
2. Non-human organisms modes
3. Habit
4. Repetition
5. Responses and stimuli
1. Creativeness
2. Human mind working
3. Not habit
4. Rarity
5. Habit and generalization

14. Language comprehension and production
Chomskyan
directions
Language
comprehension and
production
The use of
language
Second language
teaching

15. Language acquisition in childhood
McLaughlin (1978) points out the various ways of
conceptualizing the LA process and states that it is the
total psychological and social growth in infancy and
childhood.
Language
Growth
Biological growth : Chomsky
Environmental influences : Skinner

16. 2. The Psychology of Learning
Theoretical and
Experimental Study
of Learning
Empirical Study
of Learning in
Educational Setting
S-R theories: Hobbes, Locke,
Berkeley, Hume, Pavlov, Watson,
Thorndike, Skinner
Cognitive approach: Koffka,
Kohler, Wertheimer, Chomsky
Psychological
processes
Individual
acquisition of
knowledge
Teacher and
curriculum builders

17. << Pavlov
PAVLOV: Conditioning
WATSON: behaviorism
THORNDIKE: connectionism
SKINNER: operant conditioning

18. Concepts of learning in educational
psychology:
a. Characteristics of the learner
b. Different kinds of learning
c. The learning process
d. Outcomes of learning

19. CONCLUSION
The psychological contribution is so perpasive that there
is hardly an aspect of language teaching which could not
be related to psychology.
Making pedagogical grammars
Curriculum development
Expression of objectives
Teaching procedures
Organization of LT in education
Descriptive study of language
PROBLEM

20. Reference:
Stern, H.H. 1983. Foundation Concepts of
Language Teaching. London: Oxford
University Press.