Cognitive Code Approach 2
Cognitive Code Approach 2
Theoritical background
Cognitive psychologists and applied linguisticts, such as John B. Carroll and Kenneth
Chastain, advocated the cognitive –code approach in 1960s to the study of a second language
as an alternative to the audio-lingual method prevalent at the time.
To a great extent, cognitive-code learning theory was based on contemporary development in
transformational grammar and the generative theory of language that developed in the 1950s
and 1960s.
Cognitive-code learning theory is a theory (CCLT) of L1 and L2 studies and research. CCLT
is said to have briefly replaced behaviorism in the late 1960s. At the time Chomsky’s theory
of transformational generative grammar, which claimed language is rule-governed and
creative, strongly emphasized rule-governed nature of language and language aquisition,
rather than habit formation.
Cognitive code-learning theory has the influences of Cognitive Psychology. CCLT is also
based on Gestalt psychology which states learning should be holistic.
The cognitive approach is sometimes considered the modern version of the grammar-
translation method.
Reference
https://www.slideshare.net/AfshanKhalid3/cognitive-code-theory-in-applied-linguistics
Lesson plan
Remembering
Understanding
Applying
Evaluating
Creating