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From KNILT
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
