Behaviourism

“[B]ehaviorism undermi

learning as the ability to inductively discover patterns of rule-governed

behavior from the examples provided to the learner by his or her

ned the role of mental processes and viewed

environment”.

models

Larsen-Freeman and Long (1991:266) consider that S-Roffer “little promises as explanations of SLA, except for perhaps

pronunciation and the rote-

memorization of formulae”.

This view of language learning gave birth to research on contrastive

analysis, especially error analysis, the main focus of which is the

interference of

reaction to behaviourism was the interlanguage studies, as the simple

comparison between first and second language neither explained nor

described the language produced by SL learners. Interlanguage studies will

be present in other SLA perspectives, as the concern of the area has been

mainly with the acquisition of grammatical morphemes or specific language

structures.
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one’s first language in the target language. An important

Behaviourism gave birth to a stimulus-response (S-R) theory which

sees language as a set of structures and acquisition as a matter of habit

formation. Ignoring any internal mechanisms, it takes into account the

linguistic environment and the stimuli it produces. Learning is an observable

behaviour which is automatically acquired by means of stimulus and

response in the form of mechanical repetition. Thus, to acquire a language is

to acquire automatic linguistic habits. According to Johnson (2004:18),