THE BUILDING OF A NEW LANGUAGE LEARNING MODEL BASED ON THE CHOMSKYAN CONCEPT

Authors

  • Mustapha Boughoulid Cadi Ayyad University, Faculty of Letters & Human Sciences, Marrakech, Morocco

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.46827/ejes.v9i8.3288

Keywords:

Language Learning Model (LLM), learning process, cognitive and non-cognitive dimensions of learning, expressivity, the structural linearity of language

Abstract

In the light of the wide spread variety of teaching and learning methods and approaches, the building of a new Language Learning Model rises as a serious contribution that aims to surmount the problem of learning acquisition among language learners. Hence, this study comes into existence to investigate some time in such a way as to come up with some solutions on the basis of the surveyed literature in this field, especially on the basis of the Chomskyan concept of learning. By a Language Learning Model, we mean a model of learning which is based on four meaningful and required dimensions. The first one is the cross-linguistic applicability of the model to all the existing natural languages. The second one is the covering of all the cognitive and non-cognitive factors. The third one is the contextualisation of the learning factors. The fourth one is related to the process of learning and how it should take into account the three learning components, input and its richness, the students’ building competency, and communicative acts that lead to the students’ performance, in accordance with four evaluative value, quantity, quality, manner, and relation. The new conceptualized Language Learning Model is a model that helps in the activation of the learners’ expressivity in terms of creativity, adaptation, and engagement in the learning process through meaningful and comprehensible activities. A learning device that is comprehensive and instructional and that allows the learners to engage in a continuous dialogic context that enables them to learn a language by resolving the conflict between their expressivity and the limitations super-imposed by their brain.

 

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Author Biography

  • Mustapha Boughoulid, Cadi Ayyad University, Faculty of Letters & Human Sciences, Marrakech, Morocco

    Mustapha Boughoulid is an EFL/ESL teacher and a researcher in the field of Linguistics and English Language Teaching Theory (ELTT). He taught English as a foreign language for more than twenty-four years. He is the co-author of the book ‘How was Moroccan Darija one century ago?’ He is also the author of many articles in the field of teaching and learning. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4477-3318.  

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2022-08-25

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