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What is Cognitive Approach?

1. Learning Theory
Responses are the result of insight and intentional patterning.

2. Language Theory
The concepts behind language -> grammar. Language as an operation -> sets of communicative functions.

3. Teacher & Students’ Role
The teacher supplies learners with examples of “meaningful” and “meaningless” pattern drills. Students experience production of new learning from their previous schemata.

4. Techniques

• Role play
• Exchange of information
• Substitution drills
• Application relationships
• Implication relationships
• Collocation relationships