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Title: The psychologist and the foreign-language teacher / Wilga M. Rivers.
Main Entry: Rivers, Wilga M.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press,
Publication Date: [1964]
Publication Place: Chicago :
ISBN: 0226720950
9780226720951
0226720942
9780226720944
Subject: Languages, Modern -- Study and teaching.
Psycholinguistics.
Langues modernes -- �Etude et enseignement.
Psycholinguistique.
Languages, Modern -- Study and teaching.
Psycholinguistics.
Fremdsprachenunterricht
Psychologie
Leerpsychologie.
Taalonderwijs.
Vreemde talen.
Languages, Modern -- Study and teaching
Psycholinguistics
Contents: I. Introduction --- II. The audio-lingual method described --- III. Major assumptions about language learning of the audio-lingual method --- IV. Some viewpoints on what language is --- V. Assumption 1: foreign-language learning is basically a mechanical process of habit formation --- VI. Two levels of language --- VII. Corollary 1: habits are strengthened by reinforcement --- VIII. Corollary 2: foreign-language habits are formed most effectively by giving the right response, not by making mistakes --- IX. "Language is 'behavior' and ... behavior can be learned only by inducing the student to 'behave'" --- X. Assumption 2: language skills are learned more effectively if items of the foreign language are presented in spoken form before written form --- Assumption 3: Analogy provides a better foundation for foreign-language learning than analysis --- XII. Assumption 4: the meaning which the words of a language have for the native speaker can be learned only in a matrix of allusions to the culture of the people who speak that language --- XIII. For the practical teacher: recommendations.
Related Records: Online version: Rivers, Wilga M. Psychologist and the foreign-language teacher. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [1964] (OCoLC)709430926
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