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Guess what?
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The Audio-lingual Method
Video games for SLA
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Activation
Cognitive versus Socio-Constructivism
Conditioning experiment
Language learners' motivation
Pavlov cartoon
Pavlov's dog
Pigeons, AI and PDP
Psycholinguistics of interaction
Speaking as communication
STM + LTM
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Amnesia
Class 101
Little Albert
Modelling Change
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Operant conditioning
Piagetian learning
Puzzle box
Social Cognitive Theory
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Symbol Systems
The Bobo doll experiments
Vygotskyan theory
War of the Ghosts
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(De)nativisation
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Applying research to practice
Assimilation-Accommodation
Automaticity
Communicative language teaching
Competition Model
Direct versus indirect methods
Generalisation and discrimination
Good questions
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Instruction
L2 past
Learner errors
Magical No. 7
Mind metaphors
Neural Networks
Phonological transfer
POSA
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Selective Filter
Sequences of acquisition
Skinnerian theory
Task-based language teaching
U-shaped Learning
Verbal behavior
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Focus on form
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Lado
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Thorndike
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Overview and theory
(Kearsley, 2006)
Edward Thorndike,
puzzle boxes and the law of effect
(adapted from
Robert Kentridge
, Durham University)
Original research paper: Thorndike, Edward L. & Woodworth, Robert S. (1901a).
The influence of improvement in one mental function upon the efficiency of other functions (I)
.
Psychological Review
,
8
, 247-261