1. Signal Learning | This generally occurs in the total language process: human beings make a general response of some kind (emotional, cognitive, verbal, or nonverbal) to language. |
2. Stimulus-response learning | This is quite evident in the acquisition of the sound system of a foreign language in which, through a process of conditioning and trial and error, the learner makes closer and closer approximations to native like pronunciation. Simple lexical items are, in one sense, acquired by stimulus-response connections; in another sense they are related to higher-order types of learning. |
3. Chaining | This is evident in the acquisition of phonological sequences and syntactic patterns-the stringing together of several responses-though we should not be misled into believing that verbal chains are necessarily linear; generative linguists have wisely shown that sentence structure is hierarchical. |
4. Verbal association | The fourth type of learning involves Gagne’s distinction between verbal and nonverbal chains, and is not really therefore a separate type of language learning. |
5. Multiple discriminations | These are necessary particularly in second language learning where, for example, a word has to take on several meanings, or a rule in the native language is reshaped to fit a second language context. |
6. Concept learning | This includes the notion that language and cognition are inextricably interrelated, also that rules themselves-rules of syntax, rules of conversation-are linguistic concepts that have to be acquired. |
7. Principle learning | This is the extension of concept learning to the formation of a linguistic system, in which rules are not isolated in rote memory but conjoined and subsumed in a total system. |
8. Problem solving | This is clearly evident in second language learning as the learner is continually faced with sets of events that are truly problems to be solved-problems every bit as difficult as algebra problems of other “intellectual” problems. Solutions to the problems involve the creative interaction of all eight types of learning as the learner sifts and weighs previous information and knowledge. |
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