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This document discusses several theories of learning: 1) Behaviourism views learning as habit formation through drills, repetition and reinforcement with immediate error correction. 2) Mentalism sees thinking as rule-governed, with a small set of rules allowing the mind to deal with infinite experiences. Learning involves acquiring these rules. 3) The cognitive view takes learners as active information processors who try to make sense of data and impose meaningful interpretations through problem-solving activities. 4) The affective theory emphasizes the importance of emotions in motivation, which can be instrumental or integrative.

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Theories of Learning Fix

This document discusses several theories of learning: 1) Behaviourism views learning as habit formation through drills, repetition and reinforcement with immediate error correction. 2) Mentalism sees thinking as rule-governed, with a small set of rules allowing the mind to deal with infinite experiences. Learning involves acquiring these rules. 3) The cognitive view takes learners as active information processors who try to make sense of data and impose meaningful interpretations through problem-solving activities. 4) The affective theory emphasizes the importance of emotions in motivation, which can be instrumental or integrative.

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THEORIES OF LEARNING

BY : GROUP 4
LEARNING THEORIES

Hutchinson and Waters (1987) speak about ´learning


theories´ which provide the theoretical basis for the
methodology, by helping us to understand how people
learn
BEHAVIOURISM: Learning as habit formation

Principle

Errors –
Never corrected
Translate immediately
Drills Frequent
repetition

Follow the sequence hear –


speak – read – write
MENTALISM:
THINKING AS RULE-GOVERNED ACTIVITY

Chomsky conclude :
 Thinking must be rule-governed
• A finite
• Fairly small
• Set of rules enables the mind to deal with the potentially infinite
range of experience it may encounter
 Learning is consist not of forming habits, but acquiring rules
COGNITIVE CODE:
LEARNERS AS THINKING BEINGS
The cognitive view takes :
The learner to be an active processor of information
Require learners to think
Actively tries to make sense of data
Managed to impose some sort of meaningful interpretation on
pattern on the data
Task : Problem-Solving activities
THE AFFECTIVE FACTOR:
LEARNERS AS EMOTIONAL BEING

The importance of the emotional factor


Gardner and Lambert’s identified two form of
motivation:
 Instrumental Motivation
 Integrative Motivation
LEARNING AND ACQUISITION

Learning
(a conscious
process)
Acquisition
(an unconscious
process)
A MODEL FOR LEARNING

A need to acquire knowledge is a necessary


factor but the learner should
enjoy the process of acquisition

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